Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

• 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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Gay, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.472, Lulu.com

• A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Men, Use

  "Past and Present: Chartism".

• Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Perfect, Transition

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.217

• Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  English and Other Critical Essays Chartism, Chapter II

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