Ignorance Quotes - Page 4

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read
The hunter's waking thoughts.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.

I wish every grad student had that attitude.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.