Ignorance Quotes

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.