Ignorance Quotes
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.Mahatma Gandhi
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.Gay
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
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.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.Saul Bellow
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.Sacha Guitry
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
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
His ignorance is encyclopedic.Abba Eban
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
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.Mark Twain
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.Johnson
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
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
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)
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.Frank Zappa
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.Plato
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.Isaac Asimov
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.Saint Jerome
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.Oscar Wilde
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
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
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
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
