His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.
Adam Rapp
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
Adam Savage
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Addison Mizner
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai Stevenson I
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.
Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
Alan Alda
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
Alek Wek
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Alice Hamilton
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
Alice Sebold
To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.
Amanda Seales
Saying we should scrap drones shows an irresponsible and nonsensical ignorance of the way we protect our country. It lets down our servicemen and servicewomen fighting terrorists who want to harm us.
Amber Rudd
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.
As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
Where there's love, there's hate; where there's positivity, there's ignorance.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
