Ignorance Quotes
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."A Canticle for Leibowitz".
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.Charles J. C. Lyall
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
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
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.Saul Bellow
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)
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.Hippocrates
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Don Wood
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
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
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.Johnson
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
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
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
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
His ignorance is encyclopedic.Abba Eban
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
Never underestimate your own ignorance.Albert Einstein, speech
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.Saint Jerome
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.Percy Bysshe Shelley
