Ignorance Quote by Rosamond Lehmann Download Open image “How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?” — Rosamond Lehmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Knowledge Long Purity Shame Spells Wonder
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour,… — Rosamond Lehmann 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