Ignorance Quotes
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.Heraclitus, On the Universe
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.Frank Zappa
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."A Canticle for Leibowitz".
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.Plato
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
His ignorance is encyclopedic.Abba Eban
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Bokonon
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.Gay
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.Saint Jerome
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
There is no slavery but ignorance.Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.Isaac Asimov
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
