Quotes on Ignorance

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so...

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.