Quotes about Ignorance

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offences willingly, comfort the afflicted, pray for the living and the dead.

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.

But I observed, though I was such a great sinner before conversion, yet God never much charged the guilt of the sins of my ignorance upon me; only He showed me, I was lost if I had not Christ, because I had been a sinner: I saw that I wanted a perfect righteousness to present me without fault before God, and this righteousness was no where to be found, but in the Person of Jesus Christ.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.

Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.