Ignorance Quotes

Mark twain - all you need in this life is ignorance and...
Bill watterson - why waste time learning, when ignorance is...
Saint jerome - it is worse still to be ignorant of your...
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.
Gay
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
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
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Pete
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
Author Unknown
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Harry Homes
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
Izaak Walton
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Gay
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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
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
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
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
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
Rudyard Kipling
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein, speech
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963