Ignorance Quotes - Page 34

• Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

  Hippocrates

  Knowledge, Science, Ignorant

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• So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Long, Sick

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• The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.

  Wes Fesler

  Hate, Appreciate, Hatred

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• Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Real, Men, Clouds

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• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Real, Sight

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.37

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• Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

  Albert Pike

  Mistake, Humility, Pride

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

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• Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Right Conduct, Accidents

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.58, Routledge

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• Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Knowledge, Men, Discovery

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• His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Intelligence, World

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• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Should Have

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

  James Madison

  Religious, Liberty, Unions

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.33, e-artnow

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• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Progress, Foundation

  Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.355

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• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Fun, Years, Blind Spots

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• Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Hurt, Fighting

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• Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Self, Ego

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

  Pema Chodron

  Moving, Passion, Pride

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Adversity, Progress

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• Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no
  idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."

  Steven Pressfield

  Business, Believe, Clueless

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• The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Science, Men, Ignorant

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• The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Distance, Journey

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.178, Image

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• An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

  Aberjhani

  Moving, Ideas, Smell

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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• Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Taken, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.426, Penguin

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