Ignorance Quotes
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.Voltaire
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
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
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.George Eliot
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.Gay
Prejudice is ignorance.Michael Jackson
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."A Canticle for Leibowitz".
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.Hugo De Groot
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.Akhenaton
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.Confucius
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.Titus Livius
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
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, Man and Superman, 1903
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.Philo Vance
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.Hippocrates
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
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, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.Plato
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Don Wood
