Ignorance Quotes
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
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Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.
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It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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It is only the densest ethical ignorance that talks about a "Christian business" life; for business is now intrinsically evil.
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The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
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It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
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Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
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The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
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It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
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But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.
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Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
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A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.
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There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain
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I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
