We can choose between the future and the past between reason and ignorance between true compassion and mere ideology.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
God tolerates even our stammering and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as indeed without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.