The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Education reform doesn’t come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is...

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

The stupid due to his ignorance runs away from scholars.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool’s ear.

but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

It’s better to shut up and give the impression that you’re stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

Ah, I see. You don’t know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Do you mean ter tell me,” he growled at the Dursleys, “that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin’ abou’—about ANYTHING?”Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks...

You say that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world? Well I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so.

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.

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

originality and a feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

I don’t know what it is; it must be aliens from outer space, visiting from another planet.” The issue here is that if you don’t know what something is, your interpretation of it should stop...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight...

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

I’ve demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any...

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and...

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided...

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I’m just a pathetic “druggie” with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of “recovery!” They...

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused “metaphysical” anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was...

Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all.

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century...

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

That’s the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn’t have the insane need to prove it to others.”

The two pillars of ‘political correctness’ are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth

If ignorance is on the march, stand aside and let it pass you by.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages – did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances...

until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.