We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
