Ignorance Quotes

Percy bysshe shelley - the more we study, the more we discover our...
Harold macmillan, british prime minister (1957 - 1963) - i have never found in a long experience of...
Martin luther king jr., strength to love, 1963 - nothing in all the world is more dangerous than...
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Akhenaton
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
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
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.
Charles J. C. Lyall
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
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
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
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
Mark Twain
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
John Masefield
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe