Quotes About Ignorance

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

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

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

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