Ignorance Quotes

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?

~ Christmas Humphreys

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

~ Zhuangzi

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.

~ Zhuangzi

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

~ Robert Aickman

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

~ Chris Matakas

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

~ Janny Wurts

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

~ Auliq Ice

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

~ Leslye Walton

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

~ Auliq Ice

The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.

~ Auliq Ice

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

~ Auliq Ice

Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.

~ Yahia Kareem

If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know and they don’t that the conversation goes awry.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.

~ Auliq Ice

Our assumptions of playing gods could lead to our own ignorance.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

When you start speaking the TRUTH it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

~ Curious George Brigade

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

~ Katie Waitman

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.

~ Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of what I say. But People who are one of the two think I'm the other and at the end get confused totally.

~ Auliq Ice

The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

~ Jonathan Heatt

It’s time to step back and reexamine our hatred and let wrath subside. Are we striking out against the real problems: ignorance, fear, want, greed, and political disenfranchisement or just trying to find the most immediate scapegoat on which to lay the blame? Are we so busy blaming our fellow Hobbits that we’ve forgotten who is really behind the fouling of our Shire? Are we personally guilty of greed? Most of us are, to an extent. We need to reexamine our own desires, and make sure they are really needs instead of just wants. Poverty could be wiped out world wide, if enough modern Hobbits just said, “No! We will not stand for it anymore,” or if those at the top of the economic ladder really wanted to do so.

~ Steve Bivans

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

~ Debasish Mridha

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

~ John Barrowman

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

~ C.j. Cherryh

Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In the Western World that's tied up in the way we make money to support ourselves and families. In many parts of the World, it's more basic: food and water. We fear violence, oppression. We fear others.

~ Steve Bivans

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

~ Thomas Ligotti

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

~ Frank Herbert

I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing.

~ Steve Bivans

.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Ignorance is nothing more than an epidemic of people who want to stay sick.

~ Meghan Blistinsky

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.

~ Stuart Firestein

What's happening outside church walls is happening inside church walls. It is all part of the human experience. Ignorance and lack of education about sex, sexual orientation, gender identities, and human sexuality in general have led to harmful assumptions and poor pastoral counsel.

~ Kathy Baldock

Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one’s ignorance.To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of this great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in a measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation.

~ George Spencer-Brown

What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, because he was too ill to work and died young? And meant I inherited his weak lungs? Not relevant to us? her mother says. And then the break-up of the Balkans, and the start of the territorial trouble in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the civil unrest in Ireland, and the shifts of power in Russia, and the power shifts in the Ottoman empire, and the bankruptcy, economic catastrophe and social unrest in Germany, all of which played a huge part in the rise of Fascism and in the bringing about of another war in which, as it happens, your own grandmother and grandfather--who happened to be my mother and father--both fought when they were just two or three years older than you? Not relevant? To us?

~ Ali Smith

For myself, I wouldn't have lifted a finger to own a Rolex, a pair of Nikes or a BMW Z3; in fact, I had never succeeded in identifying the slightest difference between designer goods and non-designer goods. In the eyes of the world, I was clearly wrong. I was aware of this: I was in a minority, and consequently in the wrong. There had to be a difference between Yves Saint-Laurent shirts and other shirts, between Gucci moccasins and Andre moccasins. I was alone in not perceiving this difference; it was an infirmity which I could not cite as grounds for condemning the world. Does one ask a blind man to set himself up as an expert on post-impressionist painting? Through my blindness, however involuntary, I set myself apart from a living human reality powerful enough to incite both devotion and crime. These youths, through their half-savage instincts, undoubtedly discerned the presence of beauty; their desire was laudable, and perfectly in keeping with social norms; it was merely a question of rectifying the inappropriate way in which it was expressed.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Only ignorant people think they have all the answers, intelligent people are full of doubts.

~ Mk.

The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There is nothing better than not knowing.

~ Markus W. Lunner