Ignorant Quote by Venerable Bede

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

— Herbert Spencer

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them…

— Anonymous

Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.

— Will Rogers

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Russell Kirk

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

— Anonymous

“It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will to ignorance.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

— Plutarch

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

— Edward Bond