Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness,… — Dalai Lama
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. — Thomas Sowell
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we… — Robert Anton Wilson
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance… — Paul Davies
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. — Huineng
Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who… — Pearl Primus
To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. — Louis L'Amour
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is… — Idries Shah
Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little. — Stephen Charnock
Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance. — Susan Wiggs
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable… — Donald Kagan
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. — Josh Billings
The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people. — Khem Veasna
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and… — James A. Baldwin
Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth. — William J. Clinton
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! — Israel Zangwill
You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough
Doubt is really a groping ignorance. — Eliphas Levi
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control. — Immortal Technique
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance. — Henry Adams

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