Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God’s precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian.

Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise…. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

These peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

What did you have in you? – some childish notions, a few half-baked sentiments, a lot of undigested beauty, a great black mass of ignorance, a heart filled to bursting with love, and an ambition as big as your love and as futile as your ignorance.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

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

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.

Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

I don’t like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don’t know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it

It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Ignorance is not an extension of time.

They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one.

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

They say ignorance is bliss…. they’re wrong

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of goodwill found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might….Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

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.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a ‘No’ by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I’m tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline for our ignorance.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long survive their mother

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

It’s okay not to know all the answers. It’s better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s already there.

But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem

I don’t want to be cross, love cannot be forced.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance

Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Ignorance never settles a question.

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God – in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

You don’t have to lie, just tell her to ignore when I’m lying

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas