Top Ignorance Quotes

what you don't know will cost you.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Ignorance Definition

(n.) The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.

(n.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised up...

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, po...

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the s...

I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they...

If those who know leave those who don't, don't....... the world will turn to a school teaching ignorance.

It was his first definite encounter with the wary-eyed, platitudinous, evasive Labour leaders, and he realised at once the formidable barrier ofinert leadership they constituted, between the disconten...

its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored

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