Existence Quote by David O. McKay

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the…

— Patanjali

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

— Jane Smiley

Ignorance is when you don't know something and someone finds out

— Anonymous

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is…

— Thomas Paine

“Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and the nonperception of the Existent.”

— Yukteswar Giri

“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 is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want…

— Samuel Johnson

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

— Anonymous

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness…

— Karl Popper

“To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present,…

— Frances J. Woodward

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

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