Ignorance Quotes

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.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.