Ignorance Quotes
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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.
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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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It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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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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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
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Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.
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I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
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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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Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
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All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
