Ignorance Quotes

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

Confucius

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Sacha Guitry

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Mark Twain

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

Hippocrates, Law

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

Confucius

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.

Bokonon

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Tillotson