Ignorance Quotes

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

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

Confucius

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Emerich Edward Dalbert