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Quotes about Ignorance

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Everyone wants to be happy, to be blessed. Too many people are willfully refusing to pay attention to the One who wills our happiness and ignorantly supposing that the Christian way is a harder way to get what they want than doing it on their own. They are wrong. God's ways and God's presence are where we experience the happiness that lasts.
- Eugene Peterson
The plows of persecution aren't working, and the oxherds haven't even noticed! They plod back and forth, unaware that their opposition is worthless.
- Eugene Peterson
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- William Osler
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
- Johannes Tauler
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
- Bill Gates
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
- William Wilberforce
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- William Osler
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
- Benjamin Disraeli
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
- Maya Angelou