Quotes About Ignorance

That there exists in the human mind and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity [sensus divinitatis], we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead…. …this is not a doctrine which is first learned at school, but one as to which every man is, from the womb, his own master; one which nature herself allows no individual to forget.

Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.

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.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

lack of firm knowledge rarely equates with complete ignorance.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

I]gnorance was never an obstacle to a good sound bite.

And the ignorant, as always, will be wrong.

Ears were blocked to reason, and eyes blocked to goodness.

I do not recommend ignorance and I am not saying that there is no truth, but I am arguing that the best way to think about truth is to call it the best interpretation that anybody has come up with yet while conceding that no one knows what is coming next. There are lots of competing truths battling with one another for their place in the sun, and the truth is that we have to learn to cope with the conflict. The skies do not open up and drop The Truth into our laps.

The causes of evil karma are greed, anger, and ignorance—the three poisons. We create karma through action, by what we do with our body, words, and thoughts. In atoning we take full and unequivocal responsibility for it all. When we do that, we empower ourself. It becomes our evil karma, not someone else's. We acknowledge ourself as an active agent, not a passive victim. We begin to recognize that our life is not just something that happens to us.

All evil karma ever committed by me since of old, Because of my beginningless greed, anger, and ignorance, Born of my body, mouth, and thought, Now I atone for it all.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

It is mere ignorance that leads then to the supposition that connection of art and esthetic perception with experience signifies a lowering of their significance and dignity.

Genuine ignorance is more profitable because likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; while ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with a varnish waterproof to new ideas.

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. —St. Augustine

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.