Ignorance Quotes
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates, Law
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.Titus Livius
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
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
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
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
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.George Chapman
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Don Wood
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
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.Robert Browning
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)
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
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."A Canticle for Leibowitz".
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Kahlil Gibran
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)
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.Sankara
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
