Ignorance Quotes
On what we don't know and why it matters.
One quote here makes an unexpected point about science, arguing that progress mostly deepens our awareness of just how much remains unknown rather than eliminating it. Another calls ignorance a person's greatest asset, a wry, almost self-deprecating twist on the word.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.
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As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among...
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is...
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's...
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real...
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
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A sharper warning holds that ignorance alone isn't especially dangerous, but paired with power it becomes a genuinely toxic mix. For related reading, see our knowledge quotes and education quotes pages.
