Ignorance Quotes
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
Plato
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Seth Godin
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Sting
The Police
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
Walker Percy
This way of thinking allowed one to deploy the vocabularies of sixties radicalism—ecological awareness, anticorporate agitation, etc.—in order to justify the reproduction of social inequality. It allowed you to redescribe caring for your own genetic material—feeding Lucas the latest in coagulated soy juice—as altruism: it’s not just good for Lucas, it’s good for the planet. But from those who out of ignorance or desperation have allowed their children’s digestive tracts to know deep-fried, mechanically processed chicken, those who happen to be, in Brooklyn, disproportionately black and Latino, Lucas must be protected at whatever cost.
Ben Lerner
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
Gemma Galgani
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
Arthur Schopenhauer
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
Patton Oswalt
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
Eva Longoria
