Quotes about Ignorance

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

The most common and naive response in the Western world is to ignore the battle or

Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If

I never had to really worry about anything and I guess I was naive.

The reality is, of course, as soon as you think seriously about it, that the mission field is everywhere, including your own street — wherever there is ignorance or rejection of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

There was no time during the rebellion when I did not think, and often say, that the South was more to be benefited by its defeat than the North. The latter had the people, the institutions, and the territory to make a great and prosperous nation. The former was burdened with an institution abhorrent to all civilized people not brought up under it, and one which degraded labor, kept it in ignorance, and enervated the governing class.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.