I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”
“Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!”
Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
“Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.”
“Ignorance of nature’s ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. There were gods of love and war; of the sun, earth, and sky; of the oceans and rivers; of rain and thunderstorms; even of earthquakes and volcanoes. When the gods were pleased, mankind was treated to good weather, peace, and freedom from natural disaster and disease. When they were displeased, there came drought, war, pestilence, and epidemics. Since the connection of cause and effect in nature was invisible to their eyes, these gods appeared inscrutable, and people at their mercy. But with Thales of Miletus (ca. 624 BC–ca. 546 BC) about 2,600 years ago, that began to change. The idea arose that nature follows consistent principles that could be deciphered. And so began the long process of replacing the notion of the reign of gods with the concept of a universe that is governed by laws of nature, and created according to a blueprint we could someday learn to read.”
Source: The Grand Design
“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
“Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God's precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian.”
“Ignorance of Self makes the infinite feel like Void.”
“Ignorance of sensuality has caused so many women their privilege of romantic happiness.”
“Ignorance of the character structure of masses of people invariably leads to fruitless questioning. The Communists, for example, said that it was the misdirected policies of the Social Democrats that made it possible for the fascists to seize power. Actually this explanation did not explain anything, for it was precisely the Social Democrats who made a point of spreading illusions. In short, it did not result in a new mode of action. That political reaction in the form of fascism had 'befogged,' 'corrupted,' and 'hypnotized' the masses is an explanation that is as sterile as the others. This is and will continue to be the function of fascism as long as it exists. Such explanations are sterile because they fail to offer a way out. Experience teaches us that such disclosures, no matter how often they are repeated, do not convince the masses; that, in other words, social economic inquiry by itself is not enough. Wouldn't it be closer to the mark to ask, what was going on in the masses that they could not and would not recognize the function of fascism? To say that, 'The workers have to realize...' or 'We didn't understand...' does not serve any purpose. Why didn't the workers realize, and why didn't they understand? The questions that formed the basis of the discussion between the Right and the Left in the workers' movements are also to be regarded as sterile. The Right contended that the workers were not predisposed to fight; the Left, on the other hand, refuted this and asserted that the workers were revolutionary and that the Right's statement was a betrayal of revolutionary thinking. Both assertions, because they failed to see the complexities of the issue, were rigidly mechanistic. A realistic appraisal would have had to point out that the average worker bears a contradiction in himself; that he, in other words, is neither a clear-cut revolutionary nor a clear-cut conservative, but stands divided. His psychic structure derives on the one hand from the social situation (which prepares the ground for revolutionary attitudes) and on the other hand from the entire atmosphere of authoritarian society—the two being at odds with one another.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.”
Source: The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man.”
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750
“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.”
“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”
“Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.”
Source: The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.
“Ignorance of war will not stop the bullet from straying into your head.”
Source: Boom, Boom, Boom
“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.”
“Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.”
Source: Pieces of Eight
“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”
“Ignorance protects, it does not develop.”
“Ignorance says, “hate others.”
Jealousy says, “hurt others.”
Folly says, “hinder others.”
Evil says, “harm everyone.”
Intelligence says, “help yourself.”
Virtue says, “help others.”
Wisdom says, “help your friends.”
Enlightenment says, “help everyone.”
“Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.”
Source: Orson Welles: Interviews
“Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight; wisdom swings it wide open.”
“Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.”
“Ignorance was a form of bliss, I guess, until it wasn’t.”
Source: Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
“Ignorance was a sort of darkness, and darkness was a sort of rest.”
“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.”
Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures
“Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.”
“Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.”
“Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.”
“Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present leaders to reject capitalism and blame it for all the problems we face. If this fallacy is not corrected and capitalism is even further undermined, the prosperity that the free market generates will be destroyed.”
Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
“Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.”
Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...
“Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.”
“Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.”
Source: Signposts in a Strange Land
“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters
“Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.”
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”
Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.”
Source: Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia
“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson
“Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.”
Source: The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872
“Ignorance: the root of all evil.”
“Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.”
“Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!”