Ignorance Quotes - Page 2

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible they begin to see it as possible.

Cherie Carter-Scott

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

John Lyly

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

Goethe

When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.

Goethe

If ignorance is indeed bliss it is a very low grade of the article.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

Ignorance is no excuse it's the real thing.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.

Konrad Adenauer

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

Anonymous

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

Cicero

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

John Lyly

And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Goethe

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Cardinal de Retz

Ignorance is a limitation.

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Arrogance is believing only you're Right, Ignorance is believing only you're Wrong. Be Neither!

Ramana Pemmaraju

People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don’t know anything, but because they don’t know what they don’t know!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance leads to destruction.

Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Light is a masterpiece, but is of little value if you are blind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is toxic.

James Jean-Pierre

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr.

Matshona Dhliwayo

True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The strictest judges are ignorant people.

Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

Richard Dawkins

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss.

The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.

Ogwo David Emenike

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.

Ogwo David Emenike

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.

Jostein Gaarder

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.

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