Ignorance Quotes

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

I'm against ignorance.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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.

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.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

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.

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.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.