Ignorance Quotes
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It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
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Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
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I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
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It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
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In their condescending assumption that belief in God could only be the product of wishful thinking, stupidity, ignorance, or intellectual dishonesty; in their corresponding refusal seriously to consider the possibility that that belief might be true and the arguments for it sound; and in their glib supposition that the only rational considerations relevant to the question are “scientific” ones, rather than philosophical; in all of these attitudes, Flew’s critics manifest the quintessential mindset of modern secularism. And insofar as its self-satisfied a priori dismissal of outsiders as benighted, and of defectors as wicked or mad, insulates it from ever having to deal with serious criticism, it is a mindset that echoes the closed-minded prejudice and irrationality it typically attributes to religious believers themselves.
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Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
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When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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Innocence is ignorance.
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Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
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“Blameless ignorance. It's an unfortunate sign of the times.”
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
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There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
