Ignorance Quotes
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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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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.
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The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.
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You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
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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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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.
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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
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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.
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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
