Ignorance Quotes
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.Benjamin Disraeli
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
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.George Chapman
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.Robert Browning
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.Oscar Wilde
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.George Eliot
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.John Tillotson
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.Plato
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
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 democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.Philo Vance
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.Charles J. C. Lyall
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
There is no slavery but ignorance.Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".
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
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Don Wood
Never underestimate your own ignorance.Albert Einstein, speech
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."A Canticle for Leibowitz".
His ignorance is encyclopedic.Abba Eban
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
