Ignorance Quotes

• Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Belief
  • Statistics

• It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Trade
  • Easier
  • Trading

• In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Fear
  • Ignorance
  • Soil

• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Men
  • Wonder
  • Memorable

• All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

  

  David Hawkins
  • Understand
  • Ignorance
  • Cross

• THERE IS NOTHING quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Learning
  • Force
  • Succeed

• People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Opinion

• Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence

  

  Moses Mendelssohn
  • Thinking
  • Existence
  • Consciousness

• As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. 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.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Question
  • Violence
  • Faithful

• When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

  

  Susan Hampshire
  • Society
  • Ignorance
  • Dyslexic

• The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Ignorance
  • Infinite

• When did ignorance become a point of view?

  

  Scott Adams
  • Ignorance
  • Point Of View

• Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

  

  Plato
  • Desire
  • Ignorance
  • Satisfied

• We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Society
  • Relationships
  • Accomplishment

• A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Statistics

• The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we’ve traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Ideas
  • Tradition
  • Views

• All the borders in the world are man-made There are no borders, we are all hooked together. Everything is connected. There is no line of demarcation. We are hooked together like the colors of a rainbow, our problem is ignorance, we don't understand that.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Connected
  • Rainbow
  • Borders

• Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • God
  • Love
  • Knowledge

• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Feelings
  • Stupid
  • Stupidity

• Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

  

  Susan Ertz
  • Imagination
  • Ignorance
  • Boredom

• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Knowledge
  • Generations
  • Casts

• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Choose
  • Meditation

• To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hope
  • Ignorance
  • Confession

• Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Light
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

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