It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
~By Abigail Van Buren ~
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
~By William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ~
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
~By Plato ~
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.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
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.
~By Edward Irving ~
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
~By Emma Goldman ~
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~By Will Rogers ~
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
~By George Gillespie ~
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
~By John Calvin ~
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~By Frances Wright ~
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~By Derek Bok ~
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.
~By Bill Gates ~
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
~By James F. Cooper ~
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
~By Victoria Principal ~
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.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
~By John Ruskin ~
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
~By Jean Vanier ~
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
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.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
~By Edward Albert ~
Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
~By Henry Miller ~
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
~By Robert Lynd ~
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.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
~By John Adams ~
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
~By Frances Wright ~
I'm against ignorance.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~By William Penn ~
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
~By Thucydides ~
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
~By Morris Kline ~
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
~By Dalai Lama ~
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
~By Anthony Hope ~
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
~By George Santayana ~
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
~By Montel Williams ~
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
~By Plato ~
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
~By Molly Ivins ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
~By Bob Edwards ~
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
~By Addison Mizner ~
There is no darkness but ignorance.
~By William Shakespeare ~
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
~By Maria Monk ~
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
~By Winston Churchill ~
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
~By Lord Acton ~
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
~By Winston Churchill ~
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
~By James Bovard ~
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
~By Crystal Eastman ~
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
~By George Orwell ~
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
~By Warren Weaver ~
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
~By Euripides ~
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
~By David Lynch ~
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
~By Paul Harris ~
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
~By Voltaire ~
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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