Top Ignorance Quotes

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dress...

Growing up in the digital age, I'm expected to embrace all forms of modern technology with blissful ignorance. Books were always one of few escapes from this, because reading a book means not having t...

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.

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing...

A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being ant...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descen...

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring the on. The god of guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-r...

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it s...

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nur...

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...

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.