Ignorance Quotes

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.

If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.