Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
There is no sin but ignorance.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
