Ignorance Quotes

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

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.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

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.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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.

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.

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.