What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The unknown…the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought…The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don’t confide in you anymore. The downside of...

Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us,...

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

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

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into...

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

All things can be achieved but not by all means, for some means are not proper

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as...

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

The value of the body is in the mind. when the mind sleeps or shifts to negativity, the value of the body depreciates

Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was...

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will...

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as...

I guess ignorance is bliss – when I do interviews people always say, “Aren’t you upset that people make fun of you?” and I’m like, “Are they making fun of me?” I guess I just...

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. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately...

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about...

chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge – that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.

Our love is doomed from our first kiss. Until you have to look it in the eyes, ignorance is bliss.

[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...

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. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that,...

POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the...

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

My book was not written in hate for Christians or disdain for the principles often associated with Jesus Christ—instead it was inspired by the ignorance that faith and religion often breed in humanity; the type...

all appears to change when we change

Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides....

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

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we...

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?