Quotes about Ignorance
I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.
- John Calvin
Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind.
- John Calvin
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
- John Calvin
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
- Thomas Paine
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.
- Max Lucado
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
- Will Rogers
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Charles Kettering
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
- CS Lewis
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
- Ayn Rand