Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. — David Eagleman
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. — Phil Plait
Sanctified ignorance is the belief that if we love God and have committed our lives to Him, everything will work out…Sanctified ignorance is no excuse… — Dan Miller
Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance. — A.C. Grayling
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the… — Helen Keller
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? — Bill Watterson
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. — Gary Lucas
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. — Robert Browning
Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance. — Wes Fesler
A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of… — George William Curtis
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of… — Lord Acton
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both;… — Seneca the Younger
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so — Sacha Guitry
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant — Saadi
This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency — Molly Ivins
Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up… — Tori Amos
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience — Amos Bronson Alcott
Your ignorance cramps my conversation — Bob Hope
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion — Thomas Hobbes
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long — Alfred Lord Tennyson
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and… — Thomas Sowell

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