Ignorance Quotes
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way
Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.
Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.