Ignorance Quotes

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

One of my big things is that I wish to be a fisherman. I know it sounds silly ​and I'd sooner be rich than poor, and all the rest of that... but I wish the pain was ignorance or bliss or something.

Pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. It existed as the universal tool long before language was born. Pantomime serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

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.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

The darkest night is ignorance.

I having pierced through the shell of ignorance for the sake of creatures wrapped in ignorance, egg-born (as it were), am unique in the world, utterly enlightened with unsurpassed enlightenment. I myself am the world's eldest and highest.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.