Ignorance Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Henry Adams

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Mark Twain

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

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

Hippocrates

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, Man and Superman, 1903

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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 to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert