Victor Hugo Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

  Victor Hugo

  Prayer, Ignorance, August

• Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Ends

• She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Passion, Ignorance, Evil

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Ignorance, Mean

• So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Ignorance, Long

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.3, Victor Hugo

• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

• Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Ignorance, Blood

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

• God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

  Victor Hugo

  Hope, Ignorance, Men

  Victor Hugo (1964). “Things seen”

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