Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. — Wendell Berry
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange,… — Carlos Fuentes
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the… — Van Wyck Brooks
I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. — Karen O
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss. — Ani DiFranco
Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me. — Jimmy Buffett
The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity. — William C. Brown
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some. — Adam Pascal
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so.… — John Shelton Reed
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is… — Samuel Johnson
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of… — Thomas Sowell
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or… — Laura Lippman
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of… — Maximus the Confessor
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? — Thomas Jefferson
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle… — Frederick Lenz
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have… — Criss Jami
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present… — Maximus the Confessor
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance. — Catherine McCormack
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare
Chance is a name for our ignorance. — Leslie Stephen
Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant. — Ivan Pavlov

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