Agnostic Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J Boorstin

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel Boorstin

“Willful ignorance is an insult to the collective of human intelligence. Considering the vast amount of knowledge that is easily available, it is unconscionable…

— Al Stefanelli

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what…

— Lord Chesterfield

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

— Howard G. Hendricks

The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even…

— John Ashbery

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

— Wendell Berry

“Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will…

— John Kramer

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling,…

— Ruth Ozeki