Ignorance Quotes
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.
Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.
Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.