Ignorance Quotes

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

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

Saul Bellow

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

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

James Bridie

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Laertius Diogenes

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".