Ignorance Quotes

Gustave flaubert - our ignorance of history makes us libel to our...
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
George chapman - ignorance is the mother of admiration....
Henry david thoreau - true friendship can afford true knowledge. it...
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
Izaak Walton
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
Sir Anthony Hawkins
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
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
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
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
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 be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
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
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Sankara
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
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
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
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.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
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
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz".
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Harry Homes
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
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
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.
Gay