Ignorance Quotes

Henry david thoreau - a man is wise with the wisdom of his time only,...
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
Author unknown - he that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his...
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Henry Adams
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
Prejudice is ignorance.
Michael Jackson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.
Bill Watterson
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
Sir Anthony Hawkins
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
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Pete
Mahatma gandhi - to conceal ignorance is to increase it. an honest...
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Harry Homes
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.
Philo Vance
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
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 Taylo
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
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
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)
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein, speech
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo Da Vinci
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
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.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert