Quotes about Ignorance

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance. It need not be so. We have the brains and the heart to face our futures bravely. Taking responsibility for the time we take up and the space we occupy. To respect our ancestors and out of concern for our descendants, we must show ourselves as courteous and courageous well-meaning Americans. Now.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.

Since it was out of ignorance that I had acted in unbelief, I received mercy, and the grace of our Lord overflowed. 1 Timothy 1:13—14

Have you noticed how people who most ignore God are the first to blame Him in time of tragedy?

When fundamentalism wins, the world enters a dark age.

Oswald Chambers says, "Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.