Ignorance Quotes

A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one’s existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Madness is blackness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ignorance is worse than authorization.

~ Peter Tieryas

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.

~ Michael R. French

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To notice is to select, toregard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as morenoteworthy, more significant, than others. To these we attend, and therest we ignore—for which reason conscious attention is at the same time ignorance despite the fact that it gives us a vividlyclear picture of whatever we choose to notice.

~ Alan W. Watts

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster.

~ Steven Redhead

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius. If you’re stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck.

~ Louis De Bernières

At work here is that powerful WYSIATI (what you see is all there is) rule. You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

~ Daniel Kahneman

In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( High noon. )

~ Erik Pevernagie

I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

~ Danielle Esplin

They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.

~ Barry Eisler

The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.

~ Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Traditional Saying (Hawaiian): Only when the water gourd isn't full do you hear it gurgling. (Those who are ignorant have an awful lot to say.)

~ John Richard Stephens

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

~ Orrin Woodward

Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.

~ Rius

Kids these days, right? Ignorant and in love with their ignorance.

~ Christopher Farnsworth

Strange to know nothing, never to be sureOf what is true or right or real,But forced to qualify or so I feel,Or Well, it does seem so:Someone must know.Strange to be ignorant of the way things work:Their skill at finding what they need,Their sense of shape, and punctual spread of seed,And willingness to change;Yes, it is strange,Even to wear such knowledge--for our fleshSurrounds us with its own decisions--and yet spend all our life on imprecisions,That when we start to dieHave no idea why.

~ Philip Larkin

Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is an act and we are the actors of life. Some are able to act well but some are crippled by the fear of fear. Be it good or bad, great or mediocre, we all do take steps in life; sometimes out of ignorance, out of pain, out of love, out of hatred, out of comfort and sometimes out of jealousy. We may slip as we take these steps in life but when we realize what we should have done, we ought to regret and take action

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

~ Pawan Mishra

when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down

~ Sunday Adelaja

The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

~ Ann M. Martin

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.

~ Shankara

...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.

~ Louis L'amour

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

~ Sadhguru

Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.

~ Manprit Kaur

Where there is ignorance, there you will find despair; with knowledge comes hope.

~ Paul Bamikole

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

~ Erri De Luca