Ignorance Quotes

Oscar wilde - ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch...
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Derek curtis bok - if you think education is expensive, try...
Ling po, (chinese, 701 - 762) - he who neglects to drink from the spring of...
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
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
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)
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments".
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)
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
James Bridie
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
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
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Laertius Diogenes
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.
Sir Anthony Hawkins
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz".
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.
William Hazlitt
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
Stupidity has a certain charm - Ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
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 democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.
Philo Vance
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
George Chapman
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
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Sankara