Quotes about Ignorance

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

If we allow our mind to become fallow and do not pour truth into it by study, not only does ignorance possess it, but we actually reach a point where we can enjoy nothing but picture magazines and cheap novels.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

There had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, exactly: structured. He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he had become one. He had shut things out.

What you don't know won't hurt you.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.