Ignorance Quotes

Leonardo da vinci - blinding ignorance does mislead us. o! wretched...
Kahlil gibran - i wash my hands of those who imagine chattering...
Sacha guitry - the little i know, i owe to my ignorance....
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
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
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
Prejudice is ignorance.
Michael Jackson
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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
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)
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
Mark Twain
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
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
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
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
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 barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Akhenaton
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
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)
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963