Ignorance Quotes

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Thom Mayne

Art, Society, Problem

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.
David Horowitz

Work, Society, Human

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Ryan White

Family, Hatred, Realized

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
Montel Williams

Money, Crazy, Done

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi

Good, Knowledge, Forward

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
Victoria Principal

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper

Close, Bear, Relation

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Edward F. Halifax

Men, Political, Makes

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards

Learning, Bad, Dangerous

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman

Mother, Admiration

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire

Care, Speech, Apathy

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
Edward Albert

Fear, Anger, Hate

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook

Protect, Idealism, Dogmatism

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
Naomi Judd

Problems, Favorite, Core

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.
Alfred Marshall

Hope, May, Working

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
Bruce Sterling

Home, Everyone, Call

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling

Ability, Level, Ends

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk

Religion, Experience, Knowledge

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
Maria Monk

Children, Made, Keep

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.
Crystal Eastman

Him, Cheerful, Matters

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
John Shelton Reed

Knowledge, While, Rights

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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Work, Learning, Real

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey

Art, Perfection, Highest

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker

May, Through, Whatever

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
Elias Hicks

Talk, Earth, Knows

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie

Bliss, Oblivion

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Ron Reagan

Research, Republican, Leaders

Ignorance is kind of bliss.
Jackie DeShannon

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.'
Patton Oswalt

Good, Fear, Hatred

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