Pastoral Resources

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

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.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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