Ignorance Quotes

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Albert Einstein, speech

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Sacha Guitry

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Curtis Bok

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law