Top 1200 Knowledge And Ignorance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

WISDOM IS dependent upon knowledge. Where there is complete ignorance there can be no wisdom, no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man’s knowledge is comparatively limited and so his wisdom must be small, unless he can connect his mind with a knowledge greater than his own and draw from it, by inspiration, the wisdom that his own limitations deny him. Only God knows all truth; therefore only God can have Real wisdom or know the right thing to do at all times, and man can receive wisdom from God. Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.