Ignorance Quotes

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

Confucius

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

Oscar Wilde

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Titus Livius

If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!

Andy McIntyre

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

Leonardo Da Vinci

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bob Edwards

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylo

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

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

Henry Adams

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mark Twain

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

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 mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

John Masefield

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Hippocrates, Law

Prejudice is ignorance.

Michael Jackson

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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

Akhenaton

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