Wisdom Quotations

Ignorance

Ignorance

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A.E. Houseman:
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Aggie Pate:
I didn't know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.

at a non-denominational mayor's breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

Albert Einstein:
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Alexander Pope:
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

probably the source of the saying, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"

Daniel Boorstin:
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J Boorstin:
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

Dorothy Thompson:
Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.

George Eliot:
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

Henry B. Adams:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry David Thoreau:
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Herbert V. Prochnow:
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

James Michener:
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Joe Theisman:
The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

NFL football quarterback and sports analyst

Ma Ferguson:
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Governor of Texas (circa 1920)

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Matthew 15:14:
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Molly Ivins:
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Thomas Jefferson:
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Will Durant:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.