Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when… — Sri Chinmoy
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense. — Ambrose Bierce
In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view. — Gautama Buddha
There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding. — Robert Duvall
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. — Frederick Soddy
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. — Michael Schudson
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. — Helen Keller
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved… — Nelson Mandela
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was… — Maya Angelou
If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm… — Marcus Aurelius
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish… — Thomas Hood
Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance. — Evagrius Ponticus
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge,… — George MacDonald
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. — A. E. Housman
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset." — Christopher Reeve
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge. — Kelsey Grammer
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul — Plato
So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not… — Swami Vivekananda

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