Ignorance Quotes
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
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
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
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
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)
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
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.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.John Tillotson
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.Charles J. C. Lyall
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.Mark Twain
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
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
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.James Bridie
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.Mahatma Gandhi
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
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.William Blake
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)
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
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.George Chapman
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
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
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.Sir Anthony Hawkins
There is no sin greater than ignorance.Rudyard Kipling
