Ignorance Quotes

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.