Ignorance Quotes

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 giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

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.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

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.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

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.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

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.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

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.