Ignorance Quotes

Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.

Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!

Louisa May Alcott

I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going when he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

Anonymous

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Sophocles

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Publilius Syrus

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Daniel Boorstin

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

John Holt

Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The work will teach you how to do it.

Estonian proverb

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

Thornton Wilder

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Cicero

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

When we are not sure we are alive.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Baltasar Gracián

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

Johann von Goethe

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

J. C. F. von Schiller

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Today if you are not confused you are not thinking clearly.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

In baseball you don't know nothing.

I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.

Sir Laurence Olivier

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

I don't know what humor is.

You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

My doctrine is this that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop and do nothing we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Whenever two good people argue over principles they are both right.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

Russell W. Davenport

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Dorothea Brande

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Baltasar Gracián

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Henry S. Haskins

Once you start asking questions innocence is gone.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

Dr. J. A. Holmes

To some people the impossible is impossible.

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Sheila Ballantyne

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it can be done then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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