Ignorance Quotes

Bill watterson - why waste time learning, when ignorance is...
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
Denis watley - when you make a mistake or get ridiculed or...
George eliot - the beginning of an acquaintance whether with...
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
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
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo Da Vinci
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
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.
Charles J. C. Lyall
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.
Gay
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Rudyard Kipling
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
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
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
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
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
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
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
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein, speech
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
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