Quotes About Ignorance

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.