Ignorance Quotes

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

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood

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

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.

William Hazlitt

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

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 essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

Prejudice is ignorance.

Michael Jackson

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Albert Einstein, speech

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

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

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

Saul Bellow

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Mark Twain

Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

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.

Bokonon

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

Charles J. C. Lyall

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

Akhenaton

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin