Ignorance Quotes

The more deeper you think, the more silence you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In order not to be captured in a trap of depression at the latter end of your life, you should properly assess yourself, rightly understand your identity and realize that you are not the same as your appearance

~ Sunday Adelaja

we know little of the things for which we pray

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

We never accept the unaccepted, that which makes us uncomfortable. We love to ignore things till they can no longer be ignored.

~ Sandeep Sharma

Ignorance is a place where innocence is not always a virtue.

~ Chriscinthia Blount

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

~ Voltaire

There is no shame in ignorance and failing, there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.

~ John Kramer

[M]y determined and strenuous endeavours to take in absolutely nothing of what I had regarded as entirely the most irrelevant part of my schooling had patently not met with total success

~ Iain M. Banks

Doubt is the stock in trade all philosophers as well as all scientific persons. Conversely, certainty is the cane that all religious fanatics and other zealots wield with outrageous righteousness. Only by allowing for doubt can we probe our ignorance. Doubt, therefore, is the essential seed of thought.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice.

~ Martin Guevara Urbina

The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

~ Anita Amirrezvani

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

~ Criss Jami

For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you so desperately need. The invisible hand will hold you in your wretched place until your last breath — unless you evolve. If you are cruel and ignorant the invisible fist will pound you into oblivion until you submit, humble yourself and soften your hard heart.

~ Bryant Mcgill

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

~ Amy Neftzger

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.

~ K. G. Johnson

Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made for me, that would shatter the foundations of my very existence. I would see that I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive. For a long time I wouldn’t be ready to accept that my worldview could be wrong, but I do not look back with shame at my ignorance.

~ Deborah Feldman

Holy God, Holy light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Light in Greek is the same thing as knowledge which is the opposite of ignorance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

~ R. N. Prasher

Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark.

~ Welcome To Nightvale

Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.

~ Debasish Mridha

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

~ Luther Burbank

Information and ignorance are like light and darkness... When light comes into your room, darkness must fly away. When information rules your mind, ignorance finds its way out!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

~ Olivia Manning

When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.

~ Flannery O'connor

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same

~ Thomas Jefferson

Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.

~ Erik Bundy

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Om is the presence which steals away. It steals away the ordinary mundane existence of strife, struggle and duality; it steals away anxiety, aggression, fear, grief and sorrow; it steals away the debris of anger, hatred, confusion and ignorance, to fill us with the nectar of joy, immortality and life eternal.

~ Banani Ray

In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that her pain might be anything he could recognize, almost as though he believed that Negroes had their own special kind of grieving ritual, another language, something other than tears they used to express their sadness.

~ Bebe Moore Campbell

No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi