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Ignorance Quotes

Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

Great Ignorance World Friends Living

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

Girl Ignorance Fun Black Meant To Be

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.

Svetlana Alexievich

Time Ignorance People Sometimes Cry

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Fear Hope Great Light Ignorance

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Ignorance People Think Deserve Well

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson I

Forgiveness Ignorance Believe Sin

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.

Ignorance Think Thinking Evolution

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.

Eduardo Galeano

Time Ignorance I Am World Blind

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Education Ignorance Reality America

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance Wrong Only Idea He Had

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

Richard Corliss

Ignorance Words Black Grammar Guy

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Ignorance You Know Anything Highest

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

Mark Crispin Miller

Age Ignorance Information Out Turned

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Communication Ignorance Alive Young

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Good Ignorance Men Effort End Group

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance Stupidity World Dangerous

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

John Dalberg-Acton

Ignorance Simple Will Development

As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.

Love Knowledge Ignorance Rich Next

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Ignorance Chance Name Our

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Knowledge Ignorance Anger Argument

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

Saint Teresa of Avila

God Ignorance I Am Church Goodness

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Knowledge Art Ignorance Imagination

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

Ignorance People Play Being Able

Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

Ignorance Decisions Political Act

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