Quotes About Ignorance

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

preferring actual ignorance to the appearance of it, he did not ask.

You can't fix stupid but you can arrest stupid.

TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English! ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English.

A man doesn't think of change when he is ignorant of any alternative.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.