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Ignorance Quotes by William Hazlitt
- There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
- Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them…
- The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of…
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes…
- The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
More Ignorance Quotes
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton