Ignorance Quote by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

— Emile M. Cioran

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

— Neil Gaiman

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

— Karen O

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of…

— Peter Carey

“Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.”

— Blaise Pascal

I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything about both…

— Emo Philips

“They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.”

— Eoin Colfer

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

— Anonymous

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my…

— Daniel Berrigan

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

— Thomas Jefferson

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

— Saint Augustine

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the…

— Bayard Taylor

Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart…

— Zhuangzi

“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled…

— Emma Marris