Ignorance Quotes

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

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

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

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

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Ignorance breeds fear.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.