Ignorance Quotes

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

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.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

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.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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.

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.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Ignorance breeds fear.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

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.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.