Ignorance Quotes
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I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
Catherine McCormack
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
John Lancaster Spalding
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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
George Eliot
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
John Strachan
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
George Eliot
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Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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At my back I hear the word-'homosexual'-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.
John Cheever
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I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a juror at the Banff World Media Festival, and you get the best TV in the world there, and I was astounded at my ignorance. I would be watching a documentary made in Japan, and it was astounding, and I would never have heard of that otherwise. We're seeing more and more imports in the last years, and my dream for the next generation of TV is that somehow we get to tap into all of that.
David Bianculli
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
George Eliot
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
G. L. S. Shackle
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If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.
David Bosch
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All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
David Hawkins
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I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.
Richard Scott Bakker
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
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“Blameless ignorance. It's an unfortunate sign of the times.”
David Fricke
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
Plato
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Seth Godin
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The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.
Edwin Clarence Riegel
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Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
Evagrius Ponticus
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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
Yasmin Mogahed
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That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.
Alexander Elder
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
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Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
Madeleine de Souvre