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The fools are always the architect of their fall and trouble.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you're a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity.
— D.S. Mixell
Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
— DaShanne Stokes
Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit.
— Steve Maraboli
One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree
To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.
— R.W. Erskine
It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated
— Sunday Adelaja
Pastors uses peoples ignorance to spread their deception.
— Sunday Adelaja
Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
I do not respect a person without sadness in their eyes, but i do envy them..
— Danilo Vukovljak
It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
NOTE: If Donald Trump continues to be stupid enough to respond to everyone who states the obvious fact that he is ignorant, he will starve to death because he won't have time to eat.
— Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy, What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
— Antonio Porchia, Voices
Experts have called Donald Trump's ignorance "breathtaking." Jeffrey Goldberg has said that Trump has "no understanding of the post-war international order that was created by the United States." Goldberg further stated that Trump shows "little interest in understanding why the world is organized the way it is.
— Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy, What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?
— Karen Ann Wirtz, A Game of Truths
The specialist serves as a striking concrete example of the species, making clear to us the radical nature of the novelty. For, previously, men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other. But your specialist cannot be brought in under either of these two categories. He is not learned , for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his speciality; but neither is he ignorant, because he is "a scientist," and "knows" very well his own tiny portion of the universe. We shall have to say that he is a learned ignoramus, which is a very serious matter, as it implies that he is a person who is ignorant, not in the fashion of the ignorant man, but with an the petulance of one who is learned in his own special line.
— Ortega y Gasset
The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the past ignorance which led us into our present situation, we shall always see shadows of the past in the present.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
I know well that many of my readers do not think as I do. This also is most natural and confirms the theorem. For although my opinion turn out erroneous, there will always remain the fact that many of those dissentient readers have never given five minutes' thought to this complex matter. How are they going to think as I do? But by believing that they have a right to an opinion on the matter without previous effort to work one out for themselves, they prove patently that they belong to that absurd type of human being which I have called the "rebel mass." It is precisely what I mean by having one's soul obliterated, hermetically closed. Here it would be the special case of intellectual hermetism. The individual finds himself already with a stock of ideas. He decides to content himself with them and to consider himself intellectually complete.
— Ortega y Gasset
Can one come 2 conclusions,Before the question is conceived?
— Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is certainly better not to have studied a subject at all than to have studied it superficially. For when unaided healthy common sense seeks to form an opinion of something it does not go so far wrong as semi-erudition does.
— Lichtenberger
Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!
— Joubert
It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.
— Joubert
Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.
— Nanamoli Thera
It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.
— Nanamoli Thera
Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .
— Nanamoli Thera
It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.
— Nanamoli Thera
When one considers how vast and how close to us is the problem of existence—this equivocal, tortured, fleeting, dream-like existence of ours—so vast and so close that a man no sooner discovers it than it overshadows and obscures all other problems and aims; and when one sees how all men, with few and rare exceptions, have no clear consciousness of the problem, nay, seem to be quite unaware of its presence, but busy themselves with everything rather than with this, and live on, taking no thought but for the passing day and the hardly longer span of their own personal future, either expressly discarding the problem or else over-ready to come to terms with it by adopting some system of popular metaphysics and letting it satisfy them; when, I say, one takes all this to heart, one may come to the opinion that man may be said to be a thinking being only in a very remote sense, and henceforth feel no special surprise at any trait of human thoughtlessness or folly; but know, rather, that the normal man’s intellectual range of vision does indeed extend beyond that of the brute, whose whole existence is, as it were, a continual present, with no consciousness of the past or the future, but not such an immeasurable distance as is generally supposed.
— Schopenhauer
A blind ingenuity goes nowhere
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose their control. Ignorance knows no binds. Old people, young people, middle-aged, black, white, can all be ignorant.
— Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatoryThis generation might seem arrogant to the older generation due to some reasons. The older generation believes an older person or someone of higher authority is always right and being sceptical is an insult, lolOur generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wanna know why this is this and that is that, they don't just hear and believe, they hear, hear from other sides, look at it critically and express their opinions based on their conviction.This generation is full of people who are somewhat confident cos they study, they observe and due to these, they are equipped with better information and like you know, knowledge is power. You know right from wrong, you know truth from lies.When you are with those in authority and have this knowledge, an ignorant person of higher authority would be scared of you, feel threatened and might resort to maltreating and frustrating you, defaming your character etcThe older generation and the younger generation are usually having misunderstanding because the older generation are being deceived by pride, the younger generation due to their advanced education do not wanna give merit to whom it isn't due. While the older generation postulates that respect is not earned but compulsory for them to be accorded, the younger generation believes respect must be earned. lolThe older generation rules by fiction but the younger generation lives by facts. The older generation uses age to oppress, the younger generation uses their knowledge to defend.The older generation believes they can never be wrong, the younger generation wants fair hearing, demands for it, if denied, they take it by force due to the confidence they've built around themselves.The older generation is unfair to the younger generation, there was once a time they were listened to without doubts and opposition, this is the time for the younger generation to be listened to due to advancement in education and exposure.The younger generation, due to their quest for higher knowledge through research, etc, they have realized the consequences of being ignorant and with their power of conviction, they are not letting the older generation have their autocratic ways affect them.To the younger generation, one should be able to prove whatever he says, no more latent heresies and this is what the older generation don't wanna hear of.The older generation wants to continue enslaving the younger generation but the younger generation is more equipped than the older generation and as such, not letting that happen.Technology advances every day, the younger generation are ever ready to adapt to the changes but the older generation is not ready for that, they wanna remain stagnant and still have the say of the day.Like George Bernard Shaw once said, the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
— OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Ignorance is a progressive thinker’s enemy; acceptance, awareness, accountability and action are the tools of the informed; of people who want change and do all they can to achieve it.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word "nigger" leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.
— House M.D.
Unnecessary Counter arguments. Can expose your ignorance and stupidity.
— Talees Rizvi
A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.
— Orrin Woodward
Unfortunately there is no vaccination to protect the soul from the menacing disease of social ignorance manifested by character-void homosapiens.
— Tracey Bond
Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.
— Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
When we've got a common philosophy and a common objective; then we can advance in open order. We shall be a great team. But we've got to make sure of that common set of ideas. Maybe we shall find our formulae difficult for some of these new types. If we keep our minds open, we may find that they are right and that our formulae have to be modified. Probably -- it's a thought that shouldn't dishearten us -- but probably we don't know everything.
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ignorance is fertile ground.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
Ignorance,... wow sounds like you are now in it... so you came out here... so welcome to my club ignored!
— Deyth Banger
Ignorance never protected anyone for long.
— Julie Eshbaugh, Ivory and Bone
You gotta know that People will say a million negative things about you before they mention 1 good thing, don't be surprise if they never said that 1 good thing about you.
— Werley Nortreus
What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth...if silence is golden it is also in this case, very expedient.
— Radclyffe Hall
In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.
— Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
It’s a funny thing to complain about, but most of America is perfectly devoid of smells. I must have noticed it before, but this last time back I felt it as an impairment. For weeks after we arrived I kept rubbing my eyes, thinking I was losing my sight or maybe my hearing. But it was the sense of smell that was gone. Even in the grocery store, surrounded in one aisle by more kinds of food than will ever be known in a Congolese lifetime, there was nothing on the air but a vague, disinfected emptiness. I mentioned this to Anatole, who’d long since taken note of it, of course. “The air is just blank in America,” I said. “You can’t ever smell what’s around you, unless you stick your nose right down into something."“Maybe that is why they don’t know about Mobutu,” he suggested.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug
—  but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance.
— R.A.Delmonico
There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.
— Steven Magee
It’s not as if there’s an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, ‘There’s my ignorance; it’s about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.
— Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
Don't care is what I've been trying to say .... but not able to !
— HarryKrishna
Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human lif. It is much more serious. For when you end the life of a book you destroy the ideas of countless thinkers who inspired it, and condemn future generations to darkness and ignorance.
— Photozeiger
Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition
— Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth
I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.
— Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
Should a professor of accounting or chemistry be fired for using up class time to sound off about homelessness or the war in Iraq? Yes! There is no high moral principle that prevents it. What prevents it are tenure rules that have saddled so many colleges with so many self-indulgent prima donnas who seem to think that they are philosopher kings, when in fact they are often grossly ignorant or misinformed outside the narrow confines of their particular specialty.
— Thomas Sowell
Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose.
— Abhijit Naskar, The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience
Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.
— Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat
A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But the dull and stupid masses will continue in their sluggish bustle.
— Jehan Sylvius
Ignorance is pass from one generation to other.
— Deyth Banger
It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.
— Geoffrey Willans
They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.
— Richard Wright, Black Boy
The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
— Kathryn Schulz
He himself was one of your noisy roisterers, for whom life holds no greater pleasures than wine and bought women. Outside these two poles of existence, he understood nothing. Braggart, brawler, contemptuous of every living person, he despised the whole world from the heights of his ignorance.
— Guy de Maupassant, 88 Short Stories
If you want courage, kill fear and blindfold ignorance
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one’s existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Madness is blackness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ignorance is worse than authorization.
— Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan
Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
To notice is to select, toregard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as morenoteworthy, more significant, than others. To these we attend, and therest we ignore—for which reason conscious attention is at the same time ignorance despite the fact that it gives us a vividlyclear picture of whatever we choose to notice.
— Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Ignorance is more than bliss, it is a recipe for potential disaster.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius. If you’re stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck.
— Louis de Bernières, A Partisan's Daughter
At work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
— Daniel Kahneman
In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( "High noon." )
— Erik Pevernagie
I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions
Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.
— Barry Eisler, Extremis
The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.
— Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Traditional Saying (Hawaiian): Only when the water gourd isn't full do you hear it gurgling. (Those who are ignorant have an awful lot to say.)
— John Richard Stephens, Hawai'i Bathroom Book, The
Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.
— Orrin Woodward
Ignorance is bliss Knowing is depressing Wisdom is peace
— S.R
How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!
— Richard Matheson
There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.
— R. Scott Bakker
Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.
— Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son: A Novel
Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.
— Rius, Marx for Beginners
Kids these days, right? Ignorant and in love with their ignorance.
— Christopher Farnsworth, Red, White, and Blood
Strange to know nothing, never to be sureOf what is true or right or real,But forced to qualify or so I feel,Or Well, it does seem so:Someone must know.Strange to be ignorant of the way things work:Their skill at finding what they need,Their sense of shape, and punctual spread of seed,And willingness to change;Yes, it is strange,Even to wear such knowledge--for our fleshSurrounds us with its own decisions--and yet spend all our life on imprecisions,That when we start to dieHave no idea why.
— Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Life is an act and we are the actors of life. Some are able to act well but some are crippled by the fear of fear. Be it good or bad, great or mediocre, we all do take steps in life; sometimes out of ignorance, out of pain, out of love, out of hatred, out of comfort and sometimes out of jealousy. We may slip as we take these steps in life but when we realize what we should have done, we ought to regret and take action
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.
— Unarine Ramaru
Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down
— Sunday Adelaja
The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.
— Sunday Adelaja
The mountain of ignorance must be pulled down.
— Sunday Adelaja
...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.
— Ann M. Martin, Here Today
Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness.
— Shankara
...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.
— Louis L'Amour, Sackett
There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.
— Sadhguru
Enlightenment is the AWARENESS that ALL is ONE and ONE is ALL. Ignorance is the illusion of separateness.
— Manprit Kaur
Where there is ignorance, there you will find despair; with knowledge comes hope.
— Paul Bamikole
Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing.
— Auliq Ice
I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life
— Sunday Adelaja
Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don’t get me wrong, I love my school – but it’s out there in the real world. Waiting to be experienced. Waiting for the curious young minds of tomorrow to free themselves from the shackles of ignorance and transcend above everyday like-minded thoughts and uncover the mysteries of tomorrow.
— Anika de Souza
A good thing in one's ignorance is that one doesn't know that s/hedoesn't know.
— Eraldo Banovac
To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life.
— Sunday Adelaja
May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.
— Osman Welela, Of Men Made Gods
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
— Pierre Berton
True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.
— Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence
— Mantra
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
— Bodhidharma
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
— Karl Marx
The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Ignorance is the parent of fear ...
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.
— Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.
— Travis Culliton, Why I love My Prozac
The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.
— Pierre Berton
The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.
— Dennis Vickers
Don't judge what you don't know.
— Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections – so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one ignorant word, thought or action), they delay our progress for TRUE CHANGE. Every person, molecule, and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.
— Auliq Ice
The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.
— Bahman Solati
know your ignorance
—  defile your ignorance
But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowledge of the primordial state would be like a lamp, which, when lit in the room, at once causes the darkness to disappear, enlightening everything. In the same way, if one has the presence of the primordial state, one can overcome all hindrances in an instant.
— Namkhai Norbu, Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.
— Daleen Van Tonder
You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.
— Gail Carriger
To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.
— Baris Gencel
Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.
— Stephen L. Burns, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December
Ignorance does not pave the path for life.
— Kishore Bansal
How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.
— Janny Wurts, Fugitive Prince
To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us.
— Alfonso Colodrón
We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?
— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life
Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
— Robert Aickman
The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.
— Chris Matakas
What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?
— Janny Wurts, Peril's Gate
Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
— Auliq Ice
She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.
— Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.
— Auliq Ice
The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.
— Auliq Ice
People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.
— Auliq Ice
Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.
— Yahia Kareem
If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know and they don’t that the conversation goes awry.
— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.
— Auliq Ice
Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.
— Henry Johnson Jr
When you start speaking the "TRUTH" it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression.
— Henry Johnson Jr
they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.
— Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.
— Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree
I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.
— tsegaye gebre medhin
Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of what I say. But People who are one of the two think I'm the other and at the end get confused totally.
— Auliq Ice
The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?
— Jonathan Heatt
It’s time to step back and reexamine our hatred and let wrath subside. Are we striking out against the real problems: ignorance, fear, want, greed, and political disenfranchisement or just trying to find the most immediate scapegoat on which to lay the blame? Are we so busy blaming our fellow Hobbits that we’ve forgotten who is really behind the fouling of our Shire? Are we personally guilty of greed? Most of us are, to an extent. We need to reexamine our own desires, and make sure they are really needs instead of just wants. Poverty could be wiped out world wide, if enough modern Hobbits just said, “No! We will not stand for it anymore,” or if those at the top of the economic ladder really wanted to do so.
— Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
— Shannon L. Alder
Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.
— Debasish Mridha
I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.
— John Barrowman
There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles
Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In the Western World that's tied up in the way we make money to support ourselves and families. In many parts of the World, it's more basic: food and water. We fear violence, oppression. We fear others.
— Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.
— Thomas Ligotti
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?
— Frank Herbert
I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing.
— Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Ignorance is nothing more than an epidemic of people who want to stay sick.
— Meghan Blistinsky
Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.
— Stuart Firestein
What's happening outside church walls is happening inside church walls. It is all part of the human experience. Ignorance and lack of education about sex, sexual orientation, gender identities, and human sexuality in general have led to harmful assumptions and poor pastoral counsel.
— Kathy Baldock, Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community
Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one’s ignorance.To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of this great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in a measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation.
— George Spencer-Brown
What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, because he was too ill to work and died young? And meant I inherited his weak lungs? Not relevant to us? her mother says. And then the break-up of the Balkans, and the start of the territorial trouble in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the civil unrest in Ireland, and the shifts of power in Russia, and the power shifts in the Ottoman empire, and the bankruptcy, economic catastrophe and social unrest in Germany, all of which played a huge part in the rise of Fascism and in the bringing about of another war in which, as it happens, your own grandmother and grandfather--who happened to be my mother and father--both fought when they were just two or three years older than you? Not relevant? To us?
— Ali Smith
For myself, I wouldn't have lifted a finger to own a Rolex, a pair of Nikes or a BMW Z3; in fact, I had never succeeded in identifying the slightest difference between designer goods and non-designer goods. In the eyes of the world, I was clearly wrong. I was aware of this: I was in a minority, and consequently in the wrong. There had to be a difference between Yves Saint-Laurent shirts and other shirts, between Gucci moccasins and Andre moccasins. I was alone in not perceiving this difference; it was an infirmity which I could not cite as grounds for condemning the world. Does one ask a blind man to set himself up as an expert on post-impressionist painting? Through my blindness, however involuntary, I set myself apart from a living human reality powerful enough to incite both devotion and crime. These youths, through their half-savage instincts, undoubtedly discerned the presence of beauty; their desire was laudable, and perfectly in keeping with social norms; it was merely a question of rectifying the inappropriate way in which it was expressed.
— Michel Houellebecq
Only ignorant people think they have all the answers, intelligent people are full of doubts.
— Mk.
The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There is nothing better than not knowing.
— Markus W. Lunner
Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.
— Vironika Tugaleva