Top Ignorance Quotes

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

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.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigo...

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century t...

It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices.

It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I r...

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

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...

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature...

Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intellig...

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you wh...