Quotes about ignorance
ignorance learning political
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. Voltaire
ignorance stupidity appearance
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
ignorance self violence
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. William Sloane Coffin
ignorance animal vices
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. William John Wills
ignorance animal dumb
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility. William Jones
ignorance should-have examination
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations Winston Churchill
ignorance awareness
Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance. William Rotsler
ignorance care speech
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. William Safire
ignorance doe looks
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom. William J. H. Boetcker
ignorance law practice
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. William Jennings Bryan
ignorance responsibility fundamentals
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. Woodrow Wilson
ignorance growth poverty
Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth. William J. Clinton
ignorance thinking people
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not. William Gibson
ignorance desert mirages
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant
ignorance discovery years
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
ignorance knowledge fate
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. William Ellery Channing
ignorance favorites-things
Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE Whoopi Goldberg
ignorance punishment understanding
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin. Saint Augustine
ignorance men woven
The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn & know things better. But as for certain truth no man knows it, nor shall he know it, neither of the Gods nor yet of all things that I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter The Final Truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses. Xenophanes
ignorance ignorant different
We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things. Will Rogers
ignorance bounds knows
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
ignorance remember sin
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. Rudyard Kipling
ignorance intelligent men
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease! W. E. B. Du Bois
ignorance cures
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
ignorance america united-states
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
ignorance reign life-is
When ignorance reigns, life is lost Zack de la Rocha
ignorance faces bliss
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
ignorance damage causes
Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. Yvon Chouinard
ignorance track ignorant
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans Zbigniew Brzezinski
ignorance knowledge science
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. William Hazlitt
ignorance conversation former
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
ignorance evil world
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
ignorance proportion insolence
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.