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“Those who sin out of ignorance must recognise that they are hoarding great wrongs in themselves”
Nectarios of Aegina (1846–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is... becoming obvious to them that the cause must lie in their own ignorance, and in that they have allowed themselves to be misinformed, influenced and used.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of understanding.”
A. C. Grayling (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance always carries a price tag.”
Chad Oliver (1928–1993) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Field Expedient in Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955, p. 91
“It's a cultural mentality that is causing divisions, hatred and the consolidation of ignorance. Families are being destroyed, and it's getting worse because children themselves are being accused of being witches.”
José Manuel Imbamba (born 1965) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pope in Angola: Fight superstition (21 March 2009)
“How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.”
Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If ignorance is bliss, then I’m a blister”
Josh Duffy (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only thing we want to put forth is that women must acquire greater freedom and rights. The current system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.”
Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How goes the City of the Persians?” “The same as ever: plots and intrigues in the palace; Persian arrogance in the streets; peasant ignorance in the countryside.”
L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pan-Turkism is an amalgam of ignorance and idiocy”
Javad Tabatabai (1945–2023) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Javad Tabatabai interview with Mehrname Magazine (3 July 2013)
“Attention-grabbing headlines claiming that opioids (or any other drug) are killing people are wrong. Ignorance and poverty are killing people, just as they have for centuries.”
Carl Hart (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I keep anger inside, I don't throw it out. It rises when I see someone belittling someone else to value themselves, who emphasizes differences that there are not by criticizing a person who may not be white in skin, homosexual friends. They also alienated me because I had them. But I understood that ignorance is like a stone, you can throw anything at it, but it doesn't break.”
Giulia Stabile (born 2002) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main problem in Egypt today is political ignorance, for which everything ends up having a religious connotation. This is true both for Christians and for Muslims. We all need to mature politically.”
Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir (1949–2015) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I would not have any problems to vote for a Muslim if I considered him appropriate for the office" says the Bishop of Luxor (28 September 2011) Fides News Agency
“People out there are burning in the fire of ignorance and you are wasting your time here inquiring about my health!”
Ilyas Kandhlawi (1885–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R. K. P. Multani (2007). Islamic Fundamentalism in South Asia, p. 212
“Unfortunately, only about one fifth of the nation's working population is organized into unions, but millions of non-union wage-earners have benefited from organized labor's insistence upon decent living standards for all. Those millions remain opposed or indifferent to unions through sheer ignorance of their merits.”
Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance gave this release the name of death, but properly it is the soul's birth and a charter that makes for her liberty.”
Thomas Vaughan (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole Everglades were burning. What had been a river of grass and sweet water that had given meaning and life and uniqueness to this whole enormous geography through centuries in which man had no place here was made, in one chaotic gesture of greed and ignorance and folly, a river of fire.”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.”
Muhammadu Buhari (1942–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The League was to cure humanity and lead it into better ways. It was an expression of the morality and idealism of the Anglo-Saxons, and of their ignorance of what it means to suffer of neighbours and disputed borderlands (Ulster alone knows it).”
Lewis Namier (1888–1960) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article in The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 128 (1940), p. 469, quoted in Lewis Namier, Conflicts: Studies in Contemporary History (1942), p. 29
“Those prognosticators of doom who said that Brexit would be an economic catastrophe for the UK – not only were they wrong, they demonstrated a profound ignorance of the British people when they attributed their legitimate desire to regain our national sovereignty as some mix of stupidity and xenophobia.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a speech (15 May 2023) at the National Conservatism conference in London, as cited in "Multicultural push will end in tears, says Braverman" The Telegraph (15 May 2023)
“Bipolar is real. Here in Africa, we tend not to know about it due to ignorance or overlook it.”
Chacha Eke first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talking about bipolar disorder (October 2020)
“It is extraordinary the effect that endometriosis has on your life especially if you are ignorant. Ignorance is of two types – knowingly or unknowingly. My mother, unknowingly, was ignorant, because nobody had educated her about endometriosis”
Nike Oshinowo (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Should be is not is. Ignorance sees to that.”
Esther Friesner (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The winter of ignorance could come, the cold stoked by a thousand bonfires. There would always be loveless souls ready to kindle such blazes with their neighbors’ books, or dreams, or children.”
Esther Friesner (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being white can sometimes be a real tribulation, especially in view of the ignorance, obtuseness and downright deviousness of the white world in regard to Africa as a whole and more especially in regard to the abomination of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath.”
Rose Kabuye (born 1961) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: newtimes.co.rw (November 17, 2008)
“Feminists are not nuns, that first must be established. We want to love and be loved, and most of us want children, one or two at least. But we want our love to be joyous and free – not clouded with ignorance and fear.”
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Birth Control Review, January 1918
“Don’t let people project their ignorance about your abilities onto you. If you are going to do it, make absolutely sure that it is something you cannot live without and that it is authentic to who you are and not about personal vanity. And then knife fight your way through the bullshit and never give up.”
Megalyn Echikunwoke (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sadly, the combination of poverty and ignorance is toxic and deadly.”
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never felt afraid because I knew that the work was what mattered most. I have always been a hard worker, and nothing daunts me. What sometimes scares me is people's ignorance or stupidity.”
Sonia Rolland (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fact, conflicts are the result of problems in families such as drug abuse, ignorance of the principle of gender equality, among others, and these affect children because parents are bickering and give no attention to their children.”
Beline Uwineza wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.”
Olivia Manning (1908–1980) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy, book 1: The Danger Tree, Atheneum, 1978.
“It’s not a feeling of guilt. It’s a feeling of ‘discovered ignorance'”
Clint Smith (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance makes it too easy to jump to conclusions about what we don't understand.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In response to an upsetting confrontation between Jewish women and women of color in a New England regional Women's Studies Conference,** Cherríe Moraga (et al.) wrote in Gay Community News, "We don't have to be the same to have a movement, but we do have to be accountable for our ignorance. In the end, finally, we must refuse to give up on each other.”
Evelyn Torton Beck (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lack of understanding that comes from actual ignorance is notorious. Most North Americans know nothing even of Puerto Rico, which has been under the Stars and Stripes for thirty years; so it is hardly surprising that they are apt to confuse Uruguay with Uganda.”
Muna Lee (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But, alas, a law is catching up to them. They don’t know such a law even exists, but this ignorance affords them no protection from its effects.”
Daniel Quinn (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not irreligion, not unbelief in the dogmas of the religious communities into which people happen to be born, no! lack of love and ignorance are the two main sources of all earthly calamities.”
Friedrich Feuerbach (1806–1880) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Feuerbach, F., Gedanken und Tatsachen. Ein Beitrag zur Verständigung über die wichtigsten Bedingungen des Menschenwohles. Hamburg, 1862, p. 12.
“[T]his is the ultimate question that I want to ask my predecessors from 100 years ago: What happened to these women artists? It's almost as though they were consciously written out of art history. I don't really know. Was it ignorance or was it purposeful?”
Katy Hessel (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The younger generation can’t claim ignorance about these matters, so it’s puzzling why athletes are still testing positive for drugs. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria should consistently educate athletes to ensure these lessons stick”
Chioma Ajunwa (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People make me a superstar and treat me that way. But I am not a superstar. I just regard myself as an ordinary God-fearing person. Today’s enemy is poverty and ignorance, and it has to be fought with all the might at our disposal.”
Deborah Fraser (1965–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UN names Drylands Ambassadors to raise awareness on land degradation by UN Retrieved 9/9/2024
“If you do your manual labor, do not be negligent, but apply yourself with the fear of God, in order not to sin by ignorance.”
Isaiah the Solitary (died 492) said by 492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ignorance about the high sense of responsibility of claiming to be a progressive party, and only thinking of the slogan and not acting practically.”
Sarah Jibril (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are losing our national heritage not to poverty, but to ignorance and greed. Our elephants, our rhinos, they don't belong to the government or to NGOs—they belong to the people of Kenya. We must become their guardians.”
Paula Kahumbu (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is probably not your biggest hindrance, ignorance is.”
Ajoritsedere Awosika wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not oppressed simply because I have, thank God, been spared the causes of oppression: poverty, war, destitution, abuse, illness and ignorance.”
Leila Aboulela (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim in universal history the rank that ignorance has refused her for a long time and to hold her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity.”
Sylvain Lévi (1863–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I now invite to address you, “The Merchant of Death.” The “merchant of death” to terrorism, the “merchant of death” to corruption, the “merchant of death” to nepotism, the “merchant of death” to official inefficiency, the “merchant of death” to bureaucratic negligence, the “merchant of death” to poverty and ignorance, the “merchant of death” to darkness and despair.”
Cho Ramaswamy (1934–2016) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: commenting on Narendra Modi. Cho Ramaswamy, Editor, Thuglak, introducing Narendra Modi to a gathering in Chennai, 2008 quoted in Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Voices from Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, Manus…
“if thou find ought therein that thou understandest not, or that appeareth to be repugnant, give no temeritous nor hasty judgment thereof: but ascribe it to thine own ignorance, not to the scripture, ...”
Myles Coverdale (1488–1569) said by 1569 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The roots of human wrongdoing reach far deeper than mere ignorance or social malformation.”
Nigel Biggar (born 1955) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Academy for Life no longer an ‘enclave of the ideologically pure", Crux (20 June 2017)
“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.”
Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source