Ignorance Quotes - page 2

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. (Isaiah Berlin)
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. View quote
George Orwell
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. View quote
Will Durant
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. View quote
William Osler
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. (Baron d'Holbach)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure. View quote
Mark Twain
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. View quote
Winston Churchill
Idleness and laziness not only breed ignorance, but they are also the cause of illness. View quote
Avicenna
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. View quote
Euripides
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. View quote
Charles Darwin
Ignorance is always afraid of change. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
All the perplexities, confusions, 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. View quote
John Adams
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. View quote
George Eliot
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. (Max Heindel)
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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