Ignorance Quotes
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Ignorance is the mother of fear.Harry Homes
There is no slavery but ignorance.Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.Author Unknown
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow - Mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.Emerich Edward Dalbert
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.Frank Zappa
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.William Wirt
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
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.Izaak Walton
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.James Madison
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Thomas Carlyle
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
His ignorance is encyclopedic.Abba Eban
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.Henry Adams
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.Oscar Wilde
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
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!Leonardo Da Vinci
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.Robert Browning
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
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.Richard Bach
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.Martin Luther King, Jr.
