Quotes About Ignorance

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance, Ego & Immaturity.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation before investigation.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

scratch units made up of raw draftees, many of whom were so ignorant they didn't even know the name of the country they were invading.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

Of what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!

But man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.