Ignorance Quotes

Hippocrates - there are in fact two things, science and opinion...
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
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Kahlil Gibran
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
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)
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.
Bill Watterson
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
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo Da Vinci
Bob edwards - a little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot...
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
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
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates, Law
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.
George Orwell, Book "1984".
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
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
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.
Humphrey Davy
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Rudyard Kipling
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Denis Watley
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome