Ignorance Quotes

Michael jackson - prejudice is ignorance....
Voltaire - it is an infantile superstition of the human...
Henry david thoreau - a man is wise with the wisdom of his time only,...
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo Da Vinci
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)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
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
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
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
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.
Bill Watterson
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
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
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)
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
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
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
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates