One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
I'm against ignorance.
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
We have to stand together against terror and the reasons for terrorism, which are poverty and ignorance.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
