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Famous Quotes about ignorance“ Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. ” “ The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. ” “ I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ” “ Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. ” “ Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ” “ Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ” “ We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ” “ The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ” “ The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about ” “ Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ” “ Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ” “ Fear always springs from ignorance ” “ It is extroversion that wastes our energy and makes us feel weak. In a state of introversion we think less and speak less. We then have the power to put into action whatever we think and whatever we need to do. ” “ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. ” “ In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. ” “ Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ” “ You always admire what you really don't understand. ” “ In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. ” “ There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ” “ True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ” “ Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ” “ Ignorance makes us believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches us that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance. What we see today is not the fruit of chance but the fruit of seeds planted in the past. Seeds of peace planted now will create a life of peace in the future. ” “ Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. ” “ There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ” “ Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ” “ There is no darkness but ignorance. ” |




