Ignorance Quotes

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.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

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.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only 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.

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

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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.

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.