Ignorance Quotes

Laertius diogenes - he said that there was one only good, namely,...
Anatole france - a person is never happy except at the price of...
Mark twain, letter to mrs foote, dec. 2, 1887 - all you need in this life is ignorance and...
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
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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
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 barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Akhenaton
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Titus Livius
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
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
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Confucius
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli
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, Eminent Victorians (1918)
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
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
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
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
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.
Gay
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
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
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.
Philo Vance
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert