Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amartya Sen

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Christopher Reeve

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

Christopher Marlowe

There is no sin but ignorance.

Andrew Cohen

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable

Andrew Carnegie

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Anthony de Mello

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Anna Julia Cooper

... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Daniel J. Boorstin

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel Kahneman

Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lackthe skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.

Daniel Kahneman

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Crystal Eastman

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Clarence Darrow

The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.

Daniel Dennett

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

David Hawkins

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

Dan Brown

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

Curt Goetz

A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

Coretta Scott King

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Confucius

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

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

Ambrose Bierce

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Anthony Hope

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Alice Hamilton

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Anne Lamott

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Anne Lamott

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

Annie Besant

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.