Quotes About Ignorance

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Learning is easier if you are honest about your own ignorance. People want to seem in the know. They try to signal that they are intelligent and informed. This is often counterproductive. Insecurity is the enemy of learning. A master knows how to be a beginner.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

"My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance."

Someday you will realize that you defaced something that was so beautiful. You ignored someone who really cared and hurt a heart that really loved you.

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. Wendell Berry

Scared for health, afraid of death, bored, dissatisfied, vengeful, greedy, ignorant, and gullible—these are the qualities of the ideal consumer. Can we imagine a way of education that would turn passive consumers into active and informed critics, capable of using their own minds in their own defense?

I know by now that the love of ghosts is not expectant, and I am coming to that. This Virgie of mine, this new found Virge, is the last care of my life, and I know the ignorance I must cherish him in. I must care for him as I care for a wildflower or a singing bird, no terms, no expectation, as finally I care for Port William and the ones who have been here with me. I want to leave here openhanded, with only the ancient blessing, 'Good-bye. My love to you all.

He stands under them, looks up, sees, knows, and knows that he does not know.

The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell.

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.