Ignorance Quotes

• You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

  

  William Goldman
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Said

• Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

  

  Sharon Draper
  • Moving
  • Enlightenment
  • Teachers

• When did ignorance become a point of view?

  

  Scott Adams
  • Ignorance
  • Point Of View

• Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

  

  Keith Duckworth
  • Development
  • Necessary
  • Designers

• Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.

  

  Ziauddin Sardar
  • Risk
  • Causes
  • Accepting

• Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Help
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• 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

• 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
  • World
  • Support
  • Simple

• 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

• There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Ignorance
  • Dangerous

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

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Feelings
  • Stupid
  • Stupidity

• 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.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Ignorance
  • Labor
  • First Book

• It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

  

  Gaynor Arnold
  • Live
  • Ignorance
  • Hatred

• There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.

  

  Willie Parker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

  

  Daryl Davis
  • Ignorance
  • Destruction
  • Hatred

• A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Book
  • Power
  • Bad

• Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Belief
  • Statistics

• Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

  

  Willie Wells
  • Care
  • Stupid
  • Ignorance

• We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Question
  • Ignorance
  • Ask

• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Joy

• The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

  

  Noah Levine
  • Revolution
  • Ignorance
  • Stream

• Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Ignorance
  • Jugglers

• Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Ignorance
  • Dies

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