Quotes About Ignorance

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

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

Astrology is a cousin of racism.

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

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.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.