Ignorance Quotes
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.Socrates
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.Gay
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
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.Laertius Diogenes
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.Sir Anthony Hawkins
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
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
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.Bokonon
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.Anatole France
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
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
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
The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.Henry David Thoreau
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
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
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
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.Sacha Guitry
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
Knowledge is essential to conquest only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.Anne Besant
