Quotes on Ignorance

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Ignorance never settles a question.

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

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.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.