Ignorance Quotes

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

~ Maya Angelou

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

~ Lionel Suggs

Chance is just a word expressing ignorance

~ Richard Dawkins

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

~ Maulik Doshi

The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss.

~ Lionel Suggs

The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Ignorance leads to destruction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Ignorance is a limitation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

~ Will.i.am

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

~ Dennis Prager

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

~ David Lynch

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

~ Julian Assange

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

~ Winston Churchill

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

~ Jessamyn West

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

~ Viggo Mortensen

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

~ John Adams

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

~ Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

~ Hippocrates

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

~ Richard Dawkins

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

~ Carl Sagan

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

~ Richard Dawkins

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

~ Henry Adams

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

~ George Santayana

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.

~ Luciano De Crescenzo

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

~ James Madison

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

~ Thucydides

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

~ Paul Harris

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

~ Irene Peter

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

~ Paul Harris

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

~ Giordano Bruno

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

~ Charles Kettering

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

~ Anne Lamott