Ignorance Quotes
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Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
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Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
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It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but 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.
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.
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Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.
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David Eddings: I'm afraid that ignorance, hate, racism, and violence will be exacerbated by silence. If speaking out is not an answer then what is?Markus Persson: Reading up on history, thinking for yourself, and not being an idiot.
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
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Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
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No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.
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The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
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All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
