Ignorance Quotes
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.Benjamin Disraeli
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.Philo Vance
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 ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.James Russell Lowell
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Ignorance is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
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 no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
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
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
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)
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
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.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.Author Unknown
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!Leonardo Da Vinci
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
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
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Don Wood
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.Hippocrates
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
Never underestimate your own ignorance.Albert Einstein, speech
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
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
