Ignorance Quotes

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

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.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.