Quotes about Ignorance

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.

Carefully studying the Bible will reveal to us our own ignorance of these things. It will challenge us to reject a superficial understanding of Christianity and impress on us that it is imperative not to simply be religious or moral, but also to master the Bible intellectually, integrate its principles into our lives morally, and put into action what we have learned practically.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness, meet together in men, it renders them odious to God, burdensome in society, dangerous in their counsels, disturbers of better purposes, intractable and incapable of better direction, miserable in the issue. Where Christ shows his gracious power in weakness, he does it by letting men understand themselves so far as to breed humility, and magnify God's love to such as they are.

God chooses people whom the world does not hold in high esteem— simple souls who have stumbled, and who in their ignorance have become a prey to wickedness.