Ignorance Quotes

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

~ Sunday Adelaja

After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It takes a very long time to become young.

~ Pablo Picasso

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

~ Isaac Newton

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

~ Isaac Asimov

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

~ Voltaire

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

~ Nalini Singh

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

~ Susan Sontag

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

~ Robert Burns

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

~ William Shakespeare

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power, but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

~ George Eliot

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

~ Anthony De Mello

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

~ Anthony De Mello

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable, the latter is not.

~ Criss Jami

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

~ Helen Simonson

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

~ Romain Rolland

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

~ Phyllis Mcginley

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

~ Carson Mccullers

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

~ Leo Tolstoy

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

~ Adedayo Kingjerry

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

~ Suzy Kassem

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

~ Dan Brown

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

~ St. Francis Of Assisi

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

~ Auliq Ice

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.

~ John Kramer