Quotes about Ignorance

He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good.

The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

But ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.

What's the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?" One time a student answered, "I don't know, and I don't care!

But today's society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness.

He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.