Ignorance Quotes

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge, Greatest, Illusion

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone

Truth, Lack, Regardless

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Become, Almost

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan

Stupidity, Help, Understand

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Through, Problems

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Learning, Wise

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore Dreiser

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Power, Enemy, Justice

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

Religion, Nature, Hope

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom, Individual, Collective

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman

Hope, History, Human

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

Love, End, Magic

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Death, Happy

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

God, Today, Call

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce

Learning, Studious

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge, Give, Small

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, Happiness

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn

Knowledge, Humility, Poor

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
Richard Dawkins

Time, Science, Enough

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Gentleman, Bible, Depends

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Time, Knowledge, Science

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal

Present, Cause, Vanity

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus

Good, Knowledge, Evil

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow

Great, Deep, Deal

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin

Profound, Sensation, Involves

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Knowledge, Mother, Wonder

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