Quotes about Ignorance

Our grief is not a cry for war. "That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.

As evil is the direct outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are fully learned, ignorance passes away, and wisdom takes its place.

Evil is not a power; it is ignorance and misuse of good. The hater is he who has failed to do the lesson of Love correctly, and he suffers in consequence

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good.

The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.