Pastoral Resources

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

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

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.