"Ignorance" Quotes . Top 32 Short Quotes About "Ignorance"

"The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor."

--- A. R. Bernard

#Ignorance #Oppressors #Oppressed

"Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Ignorance #Common #Ancestor

"The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved."

--- A.J. Ayer

#People #Ignorance #Involved

"His ignorance is encyclopedic."

--- Abba Eban

#Ignorance #Clever #Sarcastic

"To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error"

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Mean #Ignorance #Guidance

"The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#People #Reason #Fundamentals

"As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid."

--- Aberjhani

#People #Brotherhood #Ignorance

"Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy."

--- Aberjhani

#Calligraphy #Ignorance #Soul

"Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality."

--- Aberjhani

#Ignorance #Reality #Sensitive

"Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?"

--- Aberjhani

#Ignorance #Heal #Soul

"An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge."

--- Aberjhani

#Ignorance #Sensibility #Emotion

"In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope."

--- Aberjhani

#Ignorance #May #Jackals

"Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods."

--- Abigail Adams

#Observation #Ignorance #Abhorrence

"True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance."

--- Abigail Van Buren

#Ignorance #Dangerous Things #Education

"Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us."

--- Abraham Coles

#Prejudice #Ignorance #Dust

"The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom."

--- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Ignorance #Justice #Rabbi

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Thinking #Success #Ignorance

"The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous."

--- Abraham Maslow

#Ignorance #Found #May

"Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion."

--- Abraham Verghese

#Ignorance #Proportion #Grew

"It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause."

--- Adam Clarke

#Reason #Ignorance #Chance

"There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause."

--- Adam Clarke

#Ignorance #Chance #Causes

"The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural."

--- Adam Nicolson

#Accommodate #Ignorance #Fields

"Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some."

--- Adam Pascal

#Ignorance #Stills #Ignorance Is Bliss

"Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip."

--- Adam Savage

#Organize #Ignorance #Projects

"He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention"

--- Adam Smith

#Unintended Consequences #Ignorance #Invisible

"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."

--- Adam Smith

#Ignorance #Economy #Economics

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."

--- Addison Mizner

#Ignorance #Lawyer #Ignorance Of The Law

"Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?"

--- Adi Shankara

#Ignorance #Passion #Action

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."

--- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Brotherhood #Ignorance #Brotherhood Of Man

"Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity."

--- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Ignorance #War #Together

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

--- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Ignorance #Sin #Belief

"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."

--- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Prejudice #Stubborn #Ignorance

32 "Ignorance" Quotes