Ignorance Quotes - Page 6

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

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

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.