IGNORANCE QUOTES
quotations about ignorance
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Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Dance of Death
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul.
The blind see what they want to see.
DAN BROWN, The Da Vinci Code
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE, "The Three Brides"
Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
DEAN KOONTZ, Dark Rivers of the Heart
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
The unprepared will eventually be destroyed; ignorance is no hiding place.
TONY BALLANTYNE, Recursion
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
ROBERT BROWNING, The Inn Album
There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., A Testament of Hope
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
DAN SIMMONS, The Fall of Hyperion
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.
The more ignorant a man is the more he thinks he ought to govern someone else.
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Be not ashamed to own thy ignorance of some things.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
RICHARD DAWKINS, The God Delusion
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
WALT DISNEY, attributed, Power Marketing for Wedding and Portrait Photographers
The darkest night is ignorance.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, The Gospel of Buddha
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