Ignorance Quotes

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

Rudyard Kipling

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

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

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

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)

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

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

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

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

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Albert Einstein, speech

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.

"A Canticle for Leibowitz".

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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)

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

Gay

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

George Chapman

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian