Quotes about Ignorance

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.

Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.