Ignorance Quotes - page 6

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. (Warren Buffett)
Fear always springs from ignorance. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only true conqueststhose that awaken no regrets are those obtained over our ignorance. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. View quote
Hippocrates
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. View quote
Francis of Assisi
There is no darkness but ignorance. View quote
William Shakespeare
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. (Robert Quillen)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. View quote
John Selden
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
The most violent element in society is ignorance. View quote
Emma Goldman
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. View quote
Winston Churchill
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. View quote
Akhenaten
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance never settle a question. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. (John F. Kennedy)
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. View quote
Jerome
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said. View quote
William Goldman
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon