I Quotes
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“Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima”
Source: World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues [Paperback]
“Ignorance doesn’t make a person stupid, aversion to learning and rampant self-absorption do.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.
-Oromis”
Source: Eldest
“Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.”
“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”
“Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.”
“Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.”
Source: Thoughts
“Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.”
“Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.”
“Ignorance has no rewards.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.”
Source: Blythe
“Ignorance hides in darkness; wisdom hides in light.”
“IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.”
“Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Ignorance incarcerates you,
truth sets you free,
and knowledge lights your way around the universe.
Ego incarcerates you,
humility sets you free,
and gratitude lights your way around the universe.
Greed incarcerates you,
contentment sets you free,
and charity lights your way around the universe.
Fear incarcerates you,
hope sets you free,
and faith lights your way around the universe.
Guilt incarcerates you,
grace sets you free,
and faith lights your way around the universe.
Desire incarcerates you,
self-discipline sets you free,
and patience lights your way around the universe.
The heart incarcerates you,
the mind sets you free,
and the soul lights your way around the universe.
Death incarcerates you,
life sets you free,
and awareness lights your way around the universe.
The past incarcerates you,
the present sets you free,
and eternity lights your way around the universe.
Darkness incarcerates you,
light sets you free,
and God lights your way around the universe.”
“Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Ignorance is a cruel slave master.”
“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”
“Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.”
“Ignorance is a deep darkness.”
“Ignorance is a deep darkness. But false knowledge is total darkness.”
“Ignorance is a fine line that separates right and wrong.”
“Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.”
Source: Something Like An Autobiography
“Ignorance is a limitation.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.”
“Ignorance is a place where innocence is not always a virtue.”
“Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.”
“Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.”
“Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.”
Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
“Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.”
“Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.”
“Ignorance is a very useful weapon in the hands of the devil against humanity, especially Christians.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”
“Ignorance is a voluntary condition.”
“Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.”
Source: Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools
“Ignorance is always a bliss, if it has nothing to do with legal matters.”
Source: T21 In Downs Lane
“Ignorance is always a part of the problem, education is always a part of the solution.”
“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
“Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.”
“Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner.
Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater.
Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure.
Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.”
“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.”
“Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Ignorance is an ugly duckling, knowledge is a beautiful swan.”
“Ignorance is animal blessing,
knowledge is human curse.
Selfishness is animal tradition,
service is human choice.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Ignorance is as ugly as it is beautiful.”
“Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.”
“Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.”
“Ignorance is blind before light,
deaf before wisdom,
speechless before knowledge,
defeated before understanding,
and incapacitated before love.
Understanding is shrewd before ignorance,
heedful before knowledge,
prudent before wisdom,
cautious before darkness,
and empowered before love.”
“Ignorance is bliss. But one day, people will realise the sheer scale of destruction humans do on Earth. We can all do our part to improve what we can.”
“Ignorance is bliss
Knowing is depressing
Wisdom is peace”