497 quotes found
“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underne...”
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our 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.”
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
“Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.”
“Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.”
“What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?”
“When ignorance is passed down for a long time without giving it a second thought, it leads to evil because you are doing it without knowledge.”
“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If...”
“Many people come and go,knowing not why they ever did so.A miserable thing can it be -unconscious of why thy Creator made thee.”
“Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.”
“How would you ever come to know Gods name for that star? You wouldnt, He holds it close, the boy said. Its a thing youll never know. Its a lesson that sometimes were meant to settle for ignorance....”
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”
“The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.”
“What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.”
“Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance.”
“What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand”
“many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know”
