Ignorance Quotes
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
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
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)
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.Sankara
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.Philo Vance
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.Hippocrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.Frank Zappa
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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 is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
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
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
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
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
His ignorance is encyclopedic.Abba Eban
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
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
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
