Quotes about ignorance
ignorance men class
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. Johann Kaspar Lavater
ignorance heart desire
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ignorance als active
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
ignorance causes apathy
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
ignorance history literature
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert
ignorance fighting enemy
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. Greg Bear
ignorance office personality
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. Graydon Carter
ignorance poetic dramatic
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance i-hate-you boredom
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
ignorance companion constant
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions John McAfee
ignorance dark skills
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. John Maynard Keynes
ignorance foxes blind
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. John Lyly
ignorance empty-vessels sound
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
ignorance veils rising
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance. John Lubbock
ignorance use wonder
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. John Locke
ignorance men knowing
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
ignorance knowledge long
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.
ignorance innocence virtue
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. John Lancaster Spalding
ignorance experts world
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats. John le Carre
ignorance empathy sloppiness
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Jimmy Buffett
ignorance persistence
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is. Joanna Russ
ignorance arrogance kind
The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. Jim Rohn
ignorance knowledge tragedy
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
ignorance race enemy
No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy. George Lopez
ignorance understanding obscurity
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability. David Hume
ignorance understanding spheres
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger Dennis McKenna
ignorance character pride
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler
ignorance names mad
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad. William Shakespeare
ignorance men parent
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods. Abigail Adams
ignorance long three
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. A. E. Housman