Ignorance Quotes - Page 43

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.

If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

You can't argue with stupidity.

In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.