Ignorance Quotes

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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. — Philip Wylie
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was. — Victoria Principal
These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but… — Rajneesh
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting… — Jules Renard
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on… — David Hume
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of… — Ilka Chase
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured… — Gerard De Nerval
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. — William Sloane Coffin
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. — Johannes Kepler
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of… — Thomas Sowell
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? — Henry David Thoreau
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. — Mortimer Adler
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,… — Hermann Bondi
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... — Lewis Thomas
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance. — Hippocrates
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… — Thomas Carlyle
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi

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