Quotes about ignorance
ignorance men moral
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... Robert Green Ingersoll
ignorance simple understood
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
ignorance men atheism
But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
ignorance miracle religion
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
ignorance sin greater
There is no sin greater than ignorance. Rudyard Kipling
ignorance issues people
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance. Rudy Giuliani
ignorance novelty wonder
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. Samuel Johnson
ignorance may fancy
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
ignorance gentleman ugly
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
ignorance joy soul
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.
ignorance evil needs
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are
ignorance darkness horizon
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.
ignorance pure
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
ignorance fate destiny
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
ignorance supposing-that people
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
ignorance instruction delighted
We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
ignorance men ignorant
The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
ignorance criminals
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
ignorance evil may
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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.
ignorance mind prejudice
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
ignorance may remember
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. William E. Gladstone
ignorance character oil
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. Wendell Berry
ignorance men praise
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
ignorance order years
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity. Vladimir Nabokov
ignorance greatness jazz
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it! Wynton Marsalis
ignorance diagnosis beats
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. William Osler
ignorance humility pride
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn
ignorance knowledge
If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance Mark Twain
ignorance soul way
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls. Neal Shusterman