People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
