Top Ignorance Quotes

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!

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.

To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stup...

I don't know what humor is.

Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignorance manifested by character-void homosapiens.

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monki...

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the governmen...

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live

The strictest judges are ignorant people.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

When you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion th...

Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.