Quotes about ignorance
ignorance circles may
Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle? Lewis Carroll
ignorance mean law
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Joseph Heller
ignorance complacency doe
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end. Joseph Campbell
ignorance love-is heaven
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.
ignorance knowledge learning
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper
ignorance insecure safe
We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve, we not only discover new and unsolved problems, but we also discover that where we believed that we were standing on firm and safe ground, all things are, in truth, insecure and in a state of flux.
ignorance littles infinite
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
ignorance knowledge world
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
ignorance pride simple
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.
ignorance paradise-on-earth absence
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
ignorance gains degrees
Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance. Julie Garwood
ignorance bliss ignorance-is-bliss
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.' Julianna Margulies
ignorance ice fire
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing. Jules Renard
ignorance diagnosis physicians
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. Joshua Lederberg
ignorance damage doe
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. Josh Billings
ignorance stupidity unconscious
Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.
ignorance stuff
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
ignorance nurse prejudice
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
ignorance reflection arrogance
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
ignorance depth illusion
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time Karl Kraus
ignorance years trying
We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education. Joycelyn Elders
ignorance world
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace. Ouida
ignorance upper-class gone
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde
ignorance caring keys
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. Paul Kurtz
ignorance reality perception
Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions. Paul Dowling
ignorance knowledge-and-power evil
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies
ignorance people skillful
People are so skillful in their ignorance! Paramahansa Yogananda
ignorance men long
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
ignorance hatred
Ignorance breeds fear and hatred. P. C. Cast
ignorance isolation bigotry
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah
ignorance logic infinite
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. Percy Bysshe Shelley
ignorance thinking feelings
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.
ignorance simple men
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.