Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Ignorance is brought about by assumption.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.