All ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Quotes about “Ignorance”

“A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.”
“A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.”
“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”
“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”
“To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.”
“Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.”
“But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.”
“There is no slavery but ignorance.”
“Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)”

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