Top 260 Ignorance Quotes

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn’t know what was right or wrong.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It’s quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Trump’s characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States.

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

I’ve always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

Freedom believes in education – the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

There’s a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance – that drives me crazy.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn’t want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people’s ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

This paradox of vision – the genius of youthful ignorance – is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software – but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.

It’s no surprise that the Bush administration’s bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

We live in a culture where everyone’s opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

We’ve not reached the promised land. We’re still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important.

Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I’ve gotten older, it’s gotten more and more daunting. And I think that’s also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.

Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It’s also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.

I’ve always been cast in authority roles; I think because I have that presence… Comedically, I can play against that pretty well. I enjoy playing that arrogant ignorance. That’s one of my favorite games to play in comedy.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.