Ignorance Quotes

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He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child… — Kurt Vonnegut
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing… — Noam Chomsky
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. — John Lennon
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and… — Charles Dickens
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — Philip Jose Farmer
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance — Honore de Balzac
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. — Richard P. Feynman
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. — Margaret Atwood
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. — Eoin Colfer
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage… — Bertolt Brecht
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. — Chuck Palahniuk
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think… — Thomas Pynchon
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or… — Walt Whitman
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of… — Wendell Berry
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it. — Michel de Montaigne
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. — Mark Twain
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. — Aristophanes
The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance. — Michael Lewis

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