Ignorance Quotes

Johann wolfgang von goethe - there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in...
Gustave flaubert - our ignorance of history causes us to slander our...
John f. kennedy, speech at vanderbilt university, may 18, 1963 - the ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs...
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.
Mark Twain
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.
George Orwell, Book "1984".
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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, Man and Superman, 1903
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
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein, speech
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
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 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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Curtis Bok
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
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.
Bokonon
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
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
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
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
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
Sir Anthony Hawkins
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz".