Ignorance Quotes - Page 2

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.

Ignorance was bliss.

For many things were shown,Recorded and written down.But what is God to do,When His Word you do renounce?

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about them, of modern economic organization, of the function of government, of individual worth and possibilities,—of nearly all those things which slavery in self-defence had to keep them from learning. Much that the white boy imbibes from his earliest social atmosphere forms the puzzling problems of the black boy’s mature years. America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

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

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.

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

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.

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

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

Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

What insanity propels me to incessantly invest in a world that never ceases to fail me? And what ignorance bewitches me so thoroughly that it keeps me from investing in a God who never ceases to be unfailing?

Against ignorance, God Himself is helpless.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

You have received a mandate not given by man, but given and empowered by God, to bring justice to the people and godliness on the earth.

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.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

The work will teach you how to do it.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction.

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life.

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

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.

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.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.

Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!

If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

I don’t know how – it is a question of process

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

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

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

The reason why one man is great and another man is living in mediocrity is simply because one understood the value of time while the other did not.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Don't judge what you don't know.

Unnecessary Counter arguments. Can expose your ignorance and stupidity.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

God’s church need to declare war against ignorance.

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. It presents many faces towards the world, but everywhere it is systematic in its fight against freedom.

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.