Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.