Quotes About Ignorance

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.