Best ignorance & folly Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.”

Common Mankind Ignorance Stupidity Curse Folly

“The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.”

Government Democracy Ignorance Constitution Gentleman Folly Efficient Urban Suspicious Turbulence Unruly

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.”

Ignorance Folly Disgusting Pedants Pedantry

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.”

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Author:Thomas Gray

“Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.”

Kind Causes Mistake Worst Ignorance Extremes Folly Disposition Credulity Rudeness Obstinacy Incredulity

Book:The works of Isaac Barrow

Source: The works of Isaac Barrow

“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”

Whole Culture Parent Ignorance Slavery Vices Folly Hostile Begets

Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”

Important Humanity Lost Stars Ignorance Burden Ignorant Folly Thrive Superstitions Space Exploration Atheistic Juvenile Juvenile Justice

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.”

Men Dies Knowledge Ignorance Regret Folly Acquire

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.”

Ifs Children Dies Ignorance Terror Folly Caretakers

Author:Mason Cooley

“Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.”

Ignorance Ridiculous Folly Adopted

Book:Adventures of an Atom. Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Source: Adventures of an Atom. Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

“We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.”

Stills Ignorance Wall Folly Eden

Author:Thomas Cole

“By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.”

Ignorance Pure Simplicity Crafts Folly Ornaments Artifice Deceitful

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.”

Ignorance Bliss Folly Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:David Eddings

“I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.”

Men Way Humans Self Eye Fear Born Human Beings Ignorance Blind Folly Apartment Loathing Self Loathing Blind Man

Author:Dean Koontz

“The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”

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Author:Alan Watts

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