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Ignorance Quotes

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Nature Ignorance Constitution Honor

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

Good Knowledge Ignorance Matter Out

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Life Success Confidence Ignorance

As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.

Ignorance Fight Society Mission Go

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Wisdom Ignorance Yourself You Wiser

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Leonardo da Vinci

Eyes Ignorance Open Open Your Eyes

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Power Ignorance Book Devil Doing

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

Ignorance Someone Information Find

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

Julianna Margulies

Ignorance Bliss Ignorance Is Bliss

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

Ignorance Start Long You Write Head

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

Ignorance Problems Think Core Our

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Knowledge Power Ignorance People Own

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Growth Age Ignorance Human Been

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Ignorance Direction Look Historical

You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

Challenge Ignorance Racism Yourself

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Ignorance Know Profound Anything

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Learning Knowledge Ignorance Wise

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Good Knowledge Ignorance Evil Only

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Education Learning Ignorance Kind

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

Wisdom Ignorance Democracy Belief

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau

Love Wisdom Ignorance Better Skill

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Ignorance Know Nothing Fact Except

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Good Truth Courage Ignorance Down

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Leader Ignorance Best Personality

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