Ignorance Quotes

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

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.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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.

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.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

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.