IGNORANCE QUOTES III

quotations about ignorance

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Collected Works

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.

MATTHEW PRIOR

To the Hon. Charles Montague


The great pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen.

ROBERT WILSON LYND

The Pleasure of Ignorance


The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

GEORGE TAKEI

Facebook post, May 26, 2013


The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The blind see what they want to see.

DAN BROWN

The Da Vinci Code


It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch


The reason why intelligence cannot compete with ignorance in a friendly discussion can be arrived at by analysis. We all know the capacity, the straightforwardness and the general mental honesty of an intelligent man. He is intelligent because he thinks. He goes through a mental process, correlates ideas, adds, subtracts and divides thoughts, striving to arrive at a sane and therefore an intelligent conclusion. On the other hand, the ignorant man doesn't think, because he has never been trained to think. His mentality can't get any further than a baby with its blocks, trying to build a house. His ignorance is impenetrable, in-so-far as immediate mental activity is possible.

WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS

"On the Impenetrability of Ignorance", Originality and Other Essays


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.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"The Call of Cthulhu"


Ignorance served no useful purpose; it changed no fact, it offered no shelter.

MICHELLE WEST

"Echoes", Assassin Fantastic


Feed ignorance with predigested mental food only, otherwise you will have a case of ignorantia dyspepsia on your hands and for that there is no medicinal cure.

WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS

"On the Impenetrability of Ignorance", Originality and Other Essays


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

RAY BRADBURY

Fahrenheit 451


The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd


Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt


When an intelligent man enters into a discussion with a man of total ignorance, he is at a disadvantage because he has to do the thinking for both sides. He is at another disadvantage because he has to express his thoughts in language that the ignorant man will understand. He is at another disadvantage because he has to treat the ignorant man as an equal and in order to do that he has consciously to lower himself. He can't lift the ignorant man up and in order to be equals in the discussion the intelligent man must put himself on a plane beneath him.

WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS

"On the Impenetrability of Ignorance", Originality and Other Essays


I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw -- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"The Dawn", The Wild Swans at Coole


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

Thoughts


Ignorance is a plague that has been unleashed on the masses
Deadly in its design biased when it comes to the different classes
It seems everybody is suffering from this tyrant's overbearing rule
I say we should get together and assassinate this fool

ZACHARIAH M. WELLS

Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Seek Knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave


Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

JAMES BEATTIE

The Minstrel


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

The God Delusion