I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
Source: Parable of the Talents: A Novel
“Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.”
“Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.”
Source: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“Ignorance and apathy will eventually lead to the annihilation of humanity if left unchecked.”
Source: The Transhumanism Handbook
“Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.”
“Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no
idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."”
“Ignorance and arrogance can so easily be changed by two small changes of heart and mind—willingness to grow and humility—yet, they are so preciously and ridiculously cherished.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“Ignorance and Arrogance Thud
Manifesting a Labyrinth from a Flood
They are brothers, share the same Blood
It is from them that Apathy can Bud
Devil’s advocate rests in the Mud
Showing its assets like a Stud
Projection of right and wrong without Consent
These brothers never say a word they Meant”
Source: A Candid Aim
“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.”
“Ignorance and confidence are constant companions”
“Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.”
“Ignorance and curiosity often make toddlers do things that make them seem suicidal.”
“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
“Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.”
“Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.”
“Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear—those are the twin bases of every religion.”
Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir
“Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.”
“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.”
“Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.”
Source: Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs
“Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.”
“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.”
Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.”
“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
“Ignorance and stupidity are the most dangerous viruses that jeopardize our living together. Calamity cannot be prevented nor cured, simply as a result of unawareness. (“High noon")”
“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.”
“Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...”
“Ignorance annihilates self.”
“Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.”
“Ignorance begets ignobility.”
“Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.”
“Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.”
Source: House of Night Series
“Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.”
“Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.”
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
Source: Thoughts
“Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever”
“Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.”
“Ignorance can stifle learning, especially if the ignorant person believes that he or she is not ignorant.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.”
Source: Up the Line
“Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“Ignorance cannot give birth to knowledge, light cannot help but give birth to truth.”
“Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.”
Source: The Art of Loving Intelligently: Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women Worldwide and the Reality about Them
“Ignorance could be said is written in bold letters all over the institution that is supposed to be a shining light to the world”
“Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."”
Source: The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis
“Ignorance disconnects us.
Envy separates us.
Greed divides us.
Goodness connects us.
Faith strengthens us.
Love unites us.”
“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning.”