Quotes About Ignorance

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

Ignorance, madame, pure ignorance.

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

If only because there is so much to know in our human universe, the working assumption you can go on is: You may assume, about absolutely any fact (how many transuranic elements are there? why does cold water remove human blood stains faster than hot?) that nine hundred and ninety-nine people out of a thousand do NOT know it- which goes for the working assumption too.

We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

Andromeda in a beautiful exchange, 'Psapfo, why ignore Afroditi rich in blessings?

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about it.

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about.

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything—sometimes ignorance is safer.

I did nothing to attract attention. My somewhat fantastic tastes, my paleness and thinness, my peculiar way of dressing, my scorn of fashion, my general freedom in all respects, made me a being quite apart from all others. I did not recognise the fact. I did not read, I never read, the newspapers. So I did not know what was said about me, either favourable or unfavourable. Surrounded by a court of adorers of both sexes, I lived in a sunny dream.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.