Ignorance Quotes
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.-Hazlitt
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.-Martin Luther King, Jr
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.-A. B Alcott
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.-Bhagavad Gita
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.-Eric Hoffer
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.-James Anthony Froude
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.-Thomas Fuller
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.-Wayne Dyer
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.-Anatole France
Ignorance never settles a question.-Benjamin Disraeli
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.-Derek Bok
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.-Anthony J D'Angelo
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.-Anatole France
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.-Goethe
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.-Confucius
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.-Benjamin Disraeli
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.-Will Durant
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.-Graffiti
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.-Euripides
. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.-Thomas Gray
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.-Bernard Berenson
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.-Bob Edwards
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.-Confucius
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.-Don Wood
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.-Enrico Fermi
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.-Galileo Galilei
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.-George Eliot
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.-Homer Hickam
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.-Hugo De Groot
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.-Isaac Asimov
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.-Jeff Foxworthy
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.-Jeremy Taylor
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.-John Tillotson
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.-Laurence J. Peter
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.-Mark Twain
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.-Martin Luther King Jr.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.-Maya Angelou
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.-Mignon McLaughlin
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.-Plato
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.-Publilius Syrus
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.-Robert Browning
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.-Saadi
Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.-Bennett Cerf
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.-Rita Mae Brown
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.-Daniel J Boorstin
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.-Socrates
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.-Saint Jerome
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.-Thomas Hood
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.-Samuel Johnson
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.-Ming Lum Paou Keen
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.-Thomas Gray
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.-Homer
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.-Jean de la Fontaine
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.-John Locke
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.-Sir William Osler
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.-James Beattie
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.-Cicero
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.-Cicero
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.-Horace Mann
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.-Cicero
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.-Benjamin Disraeli
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.-John Dryden
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.-Robert Burton
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.-Samuel Butler
His ignorance is encyclopedic.-John Dryden
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.-George Eliot
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.-Mark Twain
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.-George Eliot
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.-Oliver Goldsmith
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.-Galileo
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.-William Safire
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. - Mark Twain
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. - Thucydides
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. - Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation. - Herbert Spencer
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. - Sydney Smith
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it. - American Proverb
There is no darkness, but ignorance. - William Shakespeare
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. - Arabian Proverb
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. - Publilius Syrus
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects. - Will Rogers
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. - Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - Thomas Carlyle
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. - Thomas Jefferson
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. - Brian Hwang
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. - Aldous Huxley
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. - Eric Hoffer
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. - William Hazlitt
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant. - Proverb
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. - Aldous Huxley
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy. - unknown
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage. - unknown
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance. - unknown
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. - unknown
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. - Oscar Wilde
Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend. - unknown
What you don't know can't hurt you . - Proverb
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. - Bhagavad Gita
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. - Robert Browning
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. - Euripides
There's a sucker born every minute. - PT Barnum
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. - Frank A Clark
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. - Marcus T Cicero
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. - Clarence Darrow
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. - Frank Dane
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. - Confucius
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. - Sir William Osler
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. - Horace Mann
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. - Anatole France
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. - Arnold H Glasgow
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. - Benjamin Franklin
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance never settles a question. - Benjamin Disraeli
What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it? - Lou Costello
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. - Thomas Jefferson
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. - Blaise Pascal
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. - James Fenimore Cooper
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. - Ambrose Bierce
Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. - Nicholas Ling
Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are. - Harry Mendelson
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. - Irene Peter
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. - Arabian Proverb
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. - Haitian Proverb
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. - Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance. - Source Unknown
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. - Ernest Bevin
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. - Bhagavad Gita
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. - Frank Dane
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. - Eric Hoffer
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. - Brian Hwang
The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on. - Milena Jesenska