Quotes
Quotes about Ignorance
Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.
Not enough knowledge. Never enough. And out of ignorance, evil
All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
