Ignorance Quotes

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

~ Bill Watterson

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

~ Lisa Shearin

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

~ Jay M. Bylsma

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

~ Noam Chomsky

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

~ Jasper Fforde

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

~ Gore Vidal

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

~ Eoin Colfer

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

~ Thomas Fuller

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

~ Albert Camus

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

~ Warren Buffett

no people can be both ignorant and free.

~ Thomas Jefferson

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

~ Neil Gaiman

It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

~ Booker T. Washington

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!

~ George Carlin

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

~ Mercedes Lackey

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

~ Michael Lewis

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

~ A.r. Bernard

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

~ Abba Eban

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

~ Steve Alten

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

~ Jack Whyte

We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.

~ Caitlyn Paige

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

~ Jeri Smith-Ready

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

~ Sam Harris

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question How do I look?

~ Haruki Murakami

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic druggie with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of recovery! They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?

~ Ashly Lorenzana

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Your blindness to my downfall,Has gone too far to be a joke,As I stand ablaze before you,And you tell me you smell smoke.

~ Erin Hanson

I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound.

~ Tim Kreider

I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

~ Suzy Kassem

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

~ George Eliot

Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!

~ Toba Beta

Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.

~ Toba Beta

What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?

~ Toba Beta

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

~ William Osler

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

~ Joanna Russ

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

~ Tom Robbins

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' Yes i do. she says uncertainly.

~ Philippa Gregory