Ignorance Quotes
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. (Quote by - Albert Camus )
All the perplexities, confusion 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. (Quote by - John Adams)
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. (Quote by - James Beattie)
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist. (Quote by - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
No one knows what he can do until he tries. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. (Quote by - Sheila Ballantyne)
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. (Quote by - A. Bronson Alcott)
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
I say there is no darkness but ignorance. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. (Quote by - Norman Juster)
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
In baseball, you don't know nothing. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Ignorance is the mother of presumption (Quote by - Marie de Gournay)
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. (Quote by - Livy)
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. (Quote by - Plato)
Where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew. (Quote by - Bobby Murcer)
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. (Quote by - Warren Weaver)
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (Quote by - Hazlitt)
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. (Quote by - Graffiti)
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty. (Quote by - John Locke)
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. (Quote by - Plato)
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. (Quote by - Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Quote by - Derek Bok)
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? (Quote by - Steve Polyak)
There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. (Quote by - Goethe)
Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. (Quote by - Russell W. Davenport)
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. (Quote by - Freya Stark)
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article. (Quote by - Tehyi Hsieh)
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. (Quote by - Richard P. Feynman)
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done. (Quote by - Betty Friedan)
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. (Quote by - Ernest Bevin)
There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
When we are not sure, we are alive. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do. (Quote by - John Holt)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
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. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
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. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing. (Quote by - Dr. J. A. Holmes)
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. (Quote by - Plato)
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. (Quote by - Cardinal de Retz)
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. (Quote by - L. E. Landon)
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. (Quote by - Frank Dane)
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. (Quote by - Goethe)
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. (Quote by - William Safire)
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after generation. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity. (Quote by - and that's just not fair. (Quote by - Konrad Adenauer)
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. (Quote by - Mary Astor)
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm (Quote by - George Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance. (Quote by - Joseph Smith)
Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. (Quote by - Warren Buffett)
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. (Quote by - Elizabeth Goudge)
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. (Quote by - Irene Peter)
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Your ignorance cramps my conversation. (Quote by - Anthony Hope)
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know. (Quote by - Cicero)
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. (Quote by - John Lennon)
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. (Quote by - Edgar Degas)
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. (Quote by - Daniel J Boorstin)
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. (Quote by - Anna Sewell)
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
There is no darkness but ignorance. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. (Quote by - Bennett Cerf)
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. (Quote by - Goethe)
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. (Quote by - Wernher von Braun)
To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. (Quote by - William Osler)
You can be sincere and still be stupid. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. (Quote by - John P. Loughrane)
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. (Quote by - Euripides)
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)
I don't know what humor is. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were. (Quote by - Henry S. Haskins)
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee (Quote by - Legal Maxim)
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. (Quote by - Crates)
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow. (Quote by - Sonia Johnson)
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. (Quote by - James Thurber)
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. (Quote by - Anthony J D'Angelo)
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. (Quote by - Anatole France)
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. (Quote by - Jimmy Buffett)
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. (Quote by - Saint Teresa)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. (Quote by - Confucius)
Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. (Quote by - Sacha Guitry)
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. (Quote by - James Madison)
I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do. (Quote by - Geraldine Page)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (Quote by - Galileo)
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. (Quote by - William G. McAdoo)
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. (Quote by - Brian Hwang)
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. (Quote by - Daniel Boorstin)
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Quote by - Tobias Smollett)
His ignorance is encyclopedic. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. (Quote by - Lemuel K. Washburn)
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him (Quote by - John Selden)
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. (Quote by - Homer )
The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. (Quote by - Gene Brown)
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. (Quote by - Plato)
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Ignorance is the womb of monsters (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night. (Quote by - Ming Lum Paou Keen)
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. (Quote by - Christopher Andrea)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams )
I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it. (Quote by - Sir Laurence Olivier)
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. (Quote by - John Calvin)
Ignorance never settles a question. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
To some people, the impossible is impossible. (Quote by - Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco)
Every true genius is bound to be naive. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. (Quote by - Francis of Assisi)
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
The work will teach you how to do it. (Quote by - Estonian proverb)
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words (Quote by - Gamaliel Bradford)
One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. (Quote by - Sophocles)
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. (Quote by - Cherie Carter-Scott)
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. (Quote by - George Eliot )
Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen. (Quote by - Rainer Maria Rilke)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)
An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. (Quote by - John Lyly)
All our ignorance brings us closer to death. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. (Quote by - Jane Fonda)
I learn by going where I have to go. (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
The most violent element in society is ignorance. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. (Quote by - Irene Peter)
