Ignorance Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Henry Adams

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 not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Abba Eban

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

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)

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

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 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

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

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

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Pete

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

Hippocrates

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

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

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards