Ignorance Quotes

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May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to… — Thomas Jefferson
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance… — Meher Baba
Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship. — Wes Fesler
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are… — Aristotle
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own… — Jorge Luis Borges
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers… — Alan Greenspan
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ... — Alan Greenspan
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic… — Alan Greenspan
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… — Thomas Carlyle
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we… — Rajneesh
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers… — Rajneesh
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to… — Clement of Alexandria
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and… — Nicolas Steno
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes. — John Desmond Bernal
I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care. — Frank Layden
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred… — Magnus Hirschfeld
Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical… — James Dwight Dana
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate. — Samuel Johnson
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. — Voltaire
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! — Tryon Edwards
A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee. — Joseph Conrad
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade. — Curt Goetz
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. — Gene Wolfe

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