Ignorance Quotes

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

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

The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.

Philo Vance

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

George Chapman

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Humphrey Davy

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius