Action Quote by Herman Melville

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

— Russell Kirk

The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the…

— John Lachs

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

— Herbert Spencer

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something…

— Ron Paul

Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful…

— Suzy Kassem

“Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition!”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Action without forethought is but ignorance in motion

— Nick Kovacs

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

— Karl Barth

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

If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long…

— William James

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction,…

— Bill Joy

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

— Richard P. Feynman