Best ignorance & found Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.”

“The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.”

Ifs Men Real Self Hate Found Ignorance Pride Self Love Disease Unity Greed Cruelty Primaries Defects Adverse Instability

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.”

Mind Doe Reading Found Cases Ignorance Advantage Good Things Track Investigation Beaten Long Road

Book:Souvenirs Entomologiques

Source: Souvenirs Entomologiques

“Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.”

Ifs Ends Found Lost Opinion Ignorance Profession Thee Hypocrisy Righteousness Woe Malice Exalted Formality Woe Unto

Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

“Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.”

Found Company Ignorance Riches Degrading

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”

Thinking Way I Can Science Found Cutting Ignorance Library Fund American Society Libraries And Librarians Libraries And Reading

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”

Men Found Energy Century Ignorance Hero Terrible Intellectual Discovery All Things Fundamentals Tragic Daring Catastrophe Fifth Furious Tragic Hero

Author:Robert Fagles

“Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.”

Writing Today Found Study Century Fashion Style Position Ignorance Directors Research Aim Paris Tone Colour Quarters Academic Charming Impart Endearing Haughtiness

Author:Sebastian Smee

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”

“Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.”

Knows Reason Government Found Ignorance Errors Retirement Remorse

Author:John Adams

“At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.”

Heart Soul Found Lines Ignorance My Heart My Soul Sand Shore Tides Flood

Author:Khalil Gibran

“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.”

Order Found Rooms Doubt Progress Ignorance Importance Paramount Uncertainty And Doubt

Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.”

Knows Want Feels Mind Facts Found Lost Knowing Ignorance Claims Statements Not Knowing Self Knowledge Astonishment

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”

Thinking Knows Men Has Beens Art Actors Found Simple Knowing Imagine Ignorance Higher Mets Creatures Degrees All Things Imitation Deceived Wizards Accuracy Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Socrates

“I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.”

Writing Wells Real Wanted Found My Own Boys Talent Ignorance Average Outcomes Drivers Bus Unlikely Discouragement Hoe Real Talent Bus Driver

Author:Garrison Keillor

“He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.”

Want Children Said Found Talking Ignorance Messages Daughter Negative Responsible Library Complicated My Daughter Futility Negative Words

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.”

Ifs Light Would Be Found Ignorance Shapes Worship Intellectual Nonsense Ads Nevertheless Propositions Galaxy Unlikely Improbable Neutrality Meticulous

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

May Found Lost Ignorance Lessons Ordinary Miracle Sacred Scared Neighbor Flight Daily Life Elsewhere Family And Friends Miraculous Backyards Confronting Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow

“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance”

Found My Own Effort Doubt Effects Ignorance Discovery Errors Embarrassed

Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations

“The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.”

Found Secret Ignorance Obstacles Betray Dictionary Quicksand

Book:Bel Ami

Source: Bel Ami

“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”

World Want May Said Country Government Happiness Found Poor Streets Ignorance Taxes My Friends Empty Constitution Rational Jail Prisoner Distress Boast Beggar

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.”

People Way Said Book Reality Law Political Found Results Numbers Ignorance Months Refuse Deny Protection Fixed Dull Statistics Dozen Unfortunate Mischief Surveys Hysteria Biased Sociologists

Author:Tom Robbins

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.”

Knows Book Philosophy Next Found Literature Language Ignorance Theory Surprise Ignorant Contemporary Remarkable Composition Solar System Climax Contemporary Literature Study In Scarlet

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels

“The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.”

Facts Values Hate Found Ignorance Appreciate Hatred And Love Love Hate

Author:Wes Fesler

“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.”

Source: The Physical basis of heredity

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