Inspirational Quotes on Ignorance

“Human intellect is incurably abstract.”

“The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.”

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

“Has life become so filled with efforts to cover every financial contingency, to realize one's full earthly potential, and finally to retire comfortably, that without realizing it we are finding our hope in this world rather than in God?”

“There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.”

“As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.”

“Indeed, I disagree very much with those who are unwilling that Holy Scripture, translated into the vulgar tongue, be read by the uneducated, as if Christ taught such intricate doctrines that they could scarcely be understood by very few theologians, or as if the strength of the Christian religion consisted in men's ignorance of it.”

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”

“Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.”

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

“The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.”

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”

“If I am walking along the street with a very disfiguring hole in the back of my dress, of which I am in ignorance, it is certainly a very great comfort to me to have a kind friend who will tell me of it. And similarly it is indeed a comfort to know that there is always abiding with me a divine, all-seeing Comforter, who will reprove me for all my faults, and will not let me go on in a fatal unconsciousness of them.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”

“The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.”

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”