Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

I only know that I know nothing

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

Vâda and Siddhânta — these are the two sorts of scriptural knowledge — Vada (the argumentative) and Siddhanta (the decisive). When a man is entirely ignorant he takes up the first of these, the argumentative fighting, and reasoning pro and con; and when he has finished that he takes up the Siddhanta, the decisive, arriving at a conclusion. Simply arriving at this conclusion will not do. It must be intensified.