Ignorance Quote by Sinclair Lewis Download Open image ““Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”” — Sinclair Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance
“Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell,” — Richard Marsh Copy Share Image
“and I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost an opportunity, betrayed the wonder in me by privileging the appearance… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.” — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Men glanced his way and altered course some, instinctively recognizing and alpha male at rest.” — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“He was wrong, somehow, and he wanted to be all right, but it was almost as if there was some secret nobody would tell… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis 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
