Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert V. Prochnow

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance.

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Herbert Spencer

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Henry David Thoreau

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Henry David Thoreau

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jean Toomer

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Vanier

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Graham Greene

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Harriet Martineau

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

Holly Lisle

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Igor Stravinsky

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

Howard Gardner

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Guy deBord

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Guy de Maupassant

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

Gore Vidal

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Grover Cleveland

We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

James D. Watson

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

James Bryce

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Jackie DeShannon

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Jean Henri Fabre

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Giacomo Leopardi

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Glenn Beck

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

Frank Zappa

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

Frank Zappa

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?