Ignorance Quotes - Page 9

• I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Peace, Pain

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

  Horace Mann

  Broken, Silence, Darkness

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.118

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• We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Enemy, Saved, Risen

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• It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

  Richard Dawkins

  Challenges, Essentials, Enterprise

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Teaching, Islamic, Knowledge

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• White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

  Jane Elliott

  Teacher, Freedom, Two

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• It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Thinking, Individual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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• It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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• Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Dangerous

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Stupid People, Dope

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Upper Class, Gone, Exotic

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

  John Lyly

  Empty Vessels, Sound, Conceit

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press

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• Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ignorant, Armor, Logic

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• Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Soul, Ignorant, Monsters

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143

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• A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Knowledge, Men, Knowing

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• 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, Unattainable

  Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

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• Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Space, Life And Death

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  Bernard Berenson

  Inspirational, Creativity, Years

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• The darkest night is ignorance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Night

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teaching, Earning It

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Mistake, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Ignorant

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

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• One can never win an argument with ignorance.

  Wes Fesler

  Winning, Argument

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• I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Darkness

  1601 Feste to Malvolio.Twelfth Night, act 4, sc.2, l.43-4.

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