Ignorance Quotes

Mark twain - his ignorance covered the whole earth like a...
Bokonon - beware of the man who works hard to learn...
James bridie - boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted...
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz".
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
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
Jean de la Bruyere
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
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)
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
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
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine
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 you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Curtis Bok
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
Prejudice is ignorance.
Michael Jackson
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
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
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
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
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
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov