Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ~By William Safire ~
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~By Saul Bellow ~
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. ~By Ann Plato ~
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. ~By Edward F. Halifax ~
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ~By Plato ~
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. ~By Plato ~
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 ~
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? ~By Bill Watterson ~
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. ~By George H. White ~
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. ~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. ~By Philip Wylie ~
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. ~By Maya Angelou ~
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~By Will Durant ~
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ~By James Madison ~
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. ~By Gary Lucas ~
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ~By Countess of Blessington ~
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 ~
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 ~
Ignorance breeds fear. ~By Mike Wilson ~
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ~By Herbert Spencer ~
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. ~By Arnold H. Glasgow ~
Ignorance is kind of bliss. ~By Jackie DeShannon ~
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. ~By Morris Kline ~
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ~By Charles Darwin ~
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was. ~By Victoria Principal ~
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 ~
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ~By Abigail Van Buren ~
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. ~By Winston Churchill ~
Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ~By Enrico Fermi ~
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out. ~By Russell Simmons ~
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. ~By Jean Toomer ~
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ~By Isaac Asimov ~
Ignorance is the mother of devotion. ~By Dean Henry Cole ~
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~By Will Durant ~
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 ~
Chance is a name for our ignorance. ~By Leslie Stephen ~
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. ~By Jose Bergamin ~
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. ~By Anatole France ~
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. ~By Herodotus ~
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. ~By Irene Peter ~
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. ~By Will Rogers ~
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 ~
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ~By Bell Hooks ~
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. ~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. ~By Thom Mayne ~
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ~By Sidney Hook ~
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. ~By Will Rogers ~
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ~By Henry B. Adams ~
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 ~
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. ~By Maria Monk ~
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. ~By George Eliot ~
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ~By George Eliot ~
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! ~By Tryon Edwards ~
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. ~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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 ~
Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World! ~By Cotton Mather ~
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. ~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. ~By Guy Debord ~
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ~By Thomas Gray ~
His ignorance is encyclopedic. ~By Abba Eban ~
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ~By Saint Teresa ~
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 ~
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 ~
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ~By Guru Nanak ~
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Ignorance is always afraid of change. ~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. ~By Thucydides ~
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ~By Francis of Assisi ~
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. ~By Bodhidharma ~
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. ~By Heraclitus ~
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. ~By Chauncey Wright ~
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. ~By Mary Astell ~
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ~By Petrarch ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ~By Mary Wortley ~
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance. ~By Carla Bley ~
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. ~By Christopher Marlowe ~
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. ~By Jeremy Taylor ~
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 ~
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. ~By Ben Jonson ~
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. ~By Joy Page ~
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. ~By James Beattie ~
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ~By Donald Kagan ~
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. ~By Karl Popper ~
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. ~By Charles Kettering ~
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