Ignorance Quotes
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
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
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
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
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
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 mother of fear.Harry Homes
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.Gay
Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Don Wood
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.Charles J. C. Lyall
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.John Masefield
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.
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.Plato
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
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)
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
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
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 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
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
