Ignorance Quotes - page 4

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. View quote
Thom Mayne
The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance. View quote
Joseph Delaney
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. View quote
Bodhidharma
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. View quote
Karl Menninger
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. (Fidel Castro)
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. View quote
Thomas Paine
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. View quote
Graham Greene
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. View quote
Leon Battista Alberti
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of the day So, O man as you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. View quote
Ramakrishna
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE. (Max Heindel)
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate. View quote
Samuel Johnson
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. View quote
Robert Browning
For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. View quote
Robert Browning
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. View quote
Daniel Kahneman