George Eliot Quotes About Ignorance
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
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We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
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