Ignorance Quotes
That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.
dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
