Ignorance Quotes - Page 39

• ...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

  Mark Twain

  Ignorant, Twins, Babe

  4 Copy quote

• We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorant, Ignorant Person, Persons

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorant, Should, Gentle

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

  Henry Fairlie

  Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Believe, Simple, Should Have

  Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919). “The Physical basis of heredity”

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in no apparent order. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Knowledge, Science, Order

  12 Copy quote

• The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.

  Robert Fulton

  Science, Men, Practice

  60 Copy quote

• To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Change, Time, Truth

  27 Copy quote

• What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

  Agnes Mary Clerke

  Knowledge, Science, Past

  4 Copy quote

• Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Knowledge, Science, Simple

  Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

  James A. Garfield

  Science, Years, Ignorant

  6 Copy quote

• The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Knowledge, Science, Moon

  6 Copy quote

• To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.

  George Porter

  Knowledge, Science, Long

  4 Copy quote

• One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of the ancients. Let the dogs bark, let the pigs grunt! I will nonetheless be a disciple of the ancients. All my care will be for them and the dawn will see me studying them.

  Peter of Blois

  Dog, Science, Pigs

  6 Copy quote

• [Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Errors, Order

  7 Copy quote

• Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.

  John Eccles

  Religious, Unique, Divine Guidance

  24 Copy quote

• ...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.

  Pat Condell

  Fear, Heart, Ideas

  30 Copy quote

• It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come...he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Looks, Purpose

  6 Copy quote

• Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Boys

  11 Copy quote

• Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey

  Cnut the Great

  Kings, Men, Sea

  18 Copy quote

• We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

  G. L. S. Shackle

  Ignorant, Economics, Knows

  6 Copy quote

• To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

  Douglass North

  Shapes, Today, Action

  21 Copy quote

• There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

  Robert Solow

  Book, Writing, Synthesis

  40 Copy quote

• Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

  Averroes

  Positive, Fear, Hate

  822 Copy quote

• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

  James A. Garfield

  Dark, Light, Disease And Death

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

  10 Copy quote

  Show source