Ignorance Quotes
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.Izaak Walton
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.George Eliot
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.Benjamin Disraeli
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.Voltaire
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
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
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
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.Plato
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
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
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.John Tillotson
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
Ignorance is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylo
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
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 are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.Charles J. C. Lyall
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
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.Gay
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
