Quotes
Quotes about Ignorance
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way, And giv'st access, though secret she retire.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.]
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
Ignorance never settles a question.
