Ignorance Quotes

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

Sir Anthony Hawkins

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

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

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

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

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

Bill Watterson