Quotes about Ignorance

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! There is no redemption for the fallen

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

If we allow our mind to become fallow and do not pour truth into it by study, not only does ignorance possess it, but we actually reach a point where we can enjoy nothing but picture magazines and cheap novels.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

There had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, exactly: structured. He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he had become one. He had shut things out.