Ignorance Quotes - Page 3

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

all appears to change when we change

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time-the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.