Ignorance Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch Download Open image “It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.” — Joseph Wood Krutch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Knowledge Mother Parenting
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.” — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
