Ignorance Quotes - Page 7

• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Ideas

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.

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• Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
  If we were born to paint, it’s our job to become a painter.
  If we were born to raise and nurture children, it’s our job to become a mother.
  If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Believe, Inspire

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Government, People

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.40

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• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Being Alone, Thinking, Race

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

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• When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Found

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• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Class

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Comfort, Flow

  Samuel Johnson (1805). “A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar”, p.692

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• All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Decision, Made, Evidence

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “In Her Day”, p.113, Bantam

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• You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Knowing, Doubt, Degrees

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• Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Criminals, May

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson”, p.264

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• All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, People, Information

  "Power Marketing for Wedding and Portrait Photographers". Book by Mitche Graf, 2004.

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• Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Understanding, Ignorant, Understanding Yourself

  'Biographia Literaria' (1817) ch. 12

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• It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Men, Thinking, Periods

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1998.

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• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Art, Attitude

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• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Atheist, Thinking, Religion

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  Addison Mizner

  Funny, Men, Feet

  Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

  Will Rogers

  Education, America, Tragedy

  "Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

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• Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Selfish, Struggle, Heart

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ignorant, Vaults

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.108

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Friends, Real, Envy

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• Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Twilight, Night, Vaults

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.108

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• Science is the topography of ignorance.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Topography

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Medical Essays”, p.211, Reprint Services Corporation

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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