Ignorance Quotes - Page 7

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.

Zhuangzi

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.

Baris Gencel

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.

Stephen L. Burns

Ignorance does not pave the path for life.

Kishore Bansal

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

Janny Wurts

To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us.

Alfonso Colodrón

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?

Christmas Humphreys

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

Zhuangzi

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.

Zhuangzi

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Robert Aickman

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

Chris Matakas

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

Mantra

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Bodhidharma

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Karl Marx

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

Soroosh Shahrivar

Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.

Sadhguru

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

Herman Melville

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

Michael Bassey Johnson

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

Dean Koontz

I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.

Travis Culliton

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Pierre Berton

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

Criss Jami

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

Jonathan Renshaw

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

Sunday Adelaja

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

Dennis Vickers

Don't judge what you don't know.

Maria V. Snyder

We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections – so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one ignorant word, thought or action), they delay our progress for TRUE CHANGE. Every person, molecule, and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong.

Suzy Kassem

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

Crystal Woods

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

Auliq-Ice

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.

T.F. Hodge

The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.

Sunday Adelaja

The mountain of ignorance must be pulled down.

Sunday Adelaja

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Ann M. Martin

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

Shankara

...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

Louis L'Amour

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Sadhguru

Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.

Manprit Kaur

Where there is ignorance, there you will find despair; with knowledge comes hope.

Paul Bamikole

Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing.

Auliq-Ice

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Erri De Luca

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life

Sunday Adelaja

Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don’t get me wrong, I love my school – but it’s out there in the real world. Waiting to be experienced. Waiting for the curious young minds of tomorrow to free themselves from the shackles of ignorance and transcend above everyday like-minded thoughts and uncover the mysteries of tomorrow.

Anika de Souza

A good thing in one's ignorance is that one doesn't know that s/hedoesn't know.

Eraldo Banovac

To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life.

Sunday Adelaja

May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.

Osman Welela

Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life.

Sunday Adelaja

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Pierre Berton

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

Anthony de Mello

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.

Rachel Carson

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.

Barry Eisler

The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.

Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Traditional Saying (Hawaiian): Only when the water gourd isn't full do you hear it gurgling. (Those who are ignorant have an awful lot to say.)

John Richard Stephens

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

Orrin Woodward

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