Ignorance Quotes
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.Mahatma Gandhi
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!Leonardo Da Vinci
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.Titus Livius
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.Confucius
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
Prejudice is ignorance.Michael Jackson
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.James Russell Lowell
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.Heraclitus, On the Universe
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Ignorance is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
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
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - - From foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.Jean de la Bruyere
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.Benjamin Disraeli
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
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
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
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.Frank Zappa
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.Gay
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.Author Unknown
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.Johnson
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.Martin Luther King, Jr.
