Ignorance Quotes - page 13

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. (Kahlil Gibran)
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. View quote
Warren Weaver
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity. View quote
Louis Pasteur
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved. View quote
Victor Hugo
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. (Isaac Watts)
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. View quote
Lytton Strachey
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies. View quote
Moses I. Finley
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. View quote
Lord Byron
The bright old day now dawns again the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread in Ireland, sword and brand and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days hail to the coming time. View quote
Charles Dickens
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. View quote
Walther Funk
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. (Diogenes Laërtius)
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humour. It is naked noise and naked malice. View quote
Mervyn Peake
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham