George Eliot Ignorance Quotations

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.