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Ignorance Is Quotes

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.
- Pamela Anderson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- Plato

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
- Isaac Asimov

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
- Isaac Asimov

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
- Richard Bach

You've learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast.
'What lesson might that be?'
'That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.
- R Scott Bakker

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
- Oscar Wilde

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
- Oscar Wilde

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
- Wendell Berry

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
- Toba Beta

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
- William Beveridge

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
- Bodhidharma

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
- W E B Du Bois

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
- William Shakespeare

Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
- Ray Bradbury

Ignorance is hardly unusual Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
- Brandon Sanderson

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
- Brandon Sanderson

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
- Dalai Lama

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
- Robert Browning

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
- Jim Butcher

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said...
To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet."
"So tell me," said Rigg.
"I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease..
- Orson Scott Card

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
- Bennett Cerf

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
- George Chapman

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
- Frank A Clark

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
- Andrew Cohen

Ignorance isn't bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
- David Levithan

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
- Robert A Heinlein

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
- Confucius

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
- Victor Cousin

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
- Victor Cousin

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
- Stephen Covey

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
- Frank Dane

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
- Miles Davis

Ignorance is kind of bliss.
- Jackie Deshannon

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
- Franz Kafka

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
- Michel De Montaigne

...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well.
- Ursula K Le Guin

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
- Wayne Dyer

His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- Abba Eban

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
- David Eddings

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- George Orwell

Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
- George Orwell

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi

Ignorance is bliss.
- Penelope Fletcher

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
- Neil Gaiman

Ignorance is bliss
- Thomas Gray

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
- Gary Hamel

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
- Laurell K Hamilton

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
- Paul Harris

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
- Paul Harris

Ignorance is a menace to peace.
- Paul Harris

Ignorance is bliss was bull. Melody had been ignorant her whole life, and things were far from blissful. It was time to give knowledge is power a try.
- Lisi Harrison

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosityeven if it had killed the catis king.
- Kim Harrison

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
- Kin Hubbard

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

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
- Molly Ivins

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts
- Paul Knott

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.
- Robert Anton Wilson

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.
- Paul Krugman

but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
- Akira Kurosawa

Ignorance is the parent of fear.
- Herman Melville

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.
- Thomas Paine

StupidityThe top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.
- Anton Lavey

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
- Aldo Leopold

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
- Noah Levine

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.
- Marina Lewycka

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession: their ignorance
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
- Michelle Malkin

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
- Julianna Margulies

Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
- Seneca

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.
- W Somerset Maugham

Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.
- Rebecca Mckinsey

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
- Sarah Mclachlan

There are certain delicate illusions that make life bearable. Love, in its most pure and pathetic form, the one before we get to genuinely know the person we love, is one of them. Ignorance is bliss, and the less you know, the more you love, the less you have, the more you want.
We all miss the most the things we never had.
- Cristian Mihai

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
- Osho

Ignorance is your new bestfriend.
- Paramore

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
- Adam Pascal

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
- Irene Peter

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
- Bill Watterson

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
- Ann Plato

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
- Karl Popper

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
- Victoria Principal

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
- Anna Quindlen

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
- Francois Rabelais

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
- Ron Reagan

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
- Patrick Rothfuss

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
- Jeri Smith Ready

Ignorance is bliss until one confronts it.
- Martin C Smith

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
- James Smithson

My ignorance is not charming.
- Susan Sontag

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
- Bruce Sterling

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
- Wallace Stevens

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
- Adlai E Stevenson

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
- Lytton Strachey

The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss.
- Lionel Suggs

Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
- Lionel Suggs

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
- Thucydides

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
- Jean Toomer

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
- Alan Watts

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- Alfred North Whitehead

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
- Chauncey Wright

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
- Philip Wylie

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
- Irvin D Yalom

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