Quotes about Ignorance

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity

For since through the sin of Adam we are sunk in blindness, so that we are wholly ignorant of God in all His will and counsel, it is not only foolish but also impossible of ourselves to prepare a light and a way by which to approach God and find out what He would have us do, as He says in the Book of Wisdom (9:13-14): "The thoughts of mortals are fearful and uncertain. For who among men can know what God wants?

Why do we not put aside such curiosity and cling simply to the words of Christ, willing to remain in ignorance of what takes place here and content that the real body of Christ is present by virtue of the words?72 Or is it necessary to comprehend the manner of the divine working in every detail?

Every time people are converted, it is because God has come to them and overcome their ignorance by showing the Gospel to them.

This is enormous folly, and ignorance of Christian life and faith, when a man seeks, without faith, to be justified and saved by works.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.