Ignorance Quotes

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

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.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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 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.