Ignorance Quotes
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.Oscar Wilde
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
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
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
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
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.Saint Jerome
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.Voltaire
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
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
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."A Canticle for Leibowitz".
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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)
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
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.Gay
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Benjamin Disraeli
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
