Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. — Walker Percy
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. — John Calvin
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. — Michel de Montaigne
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see… — Michel de Montaigne
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself. — Michel de Montaigne
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. — Marcel Proust
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that… — Luciano De Crescenzo
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are… — Madonna Ciccone
Ignorance is the mother of research. — Laurence J. Peter
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I only know when I don't know a thing... . wisdom lies in that. — George MacDonald
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. — Saadi
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business. — Richard Whately
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. — John Lennon
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance. — Gilbert Highet
There is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about… — Eduardo Galeano
Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion. — James Boswell
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff… — Robertson Davies

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