Ignorance Quotes
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
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
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
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Curtis Bok
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
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
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
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance.Author Unknown
Prejudice is ignorance.Michael Jackson
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.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.Mark Twain
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.Isaac Asimov
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
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.Stephen Hawking
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!Andy McIntyre
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.William Hazlitt
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
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
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.W. Clement Stone
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.James Russell Lowell
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 recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.Mark Twain
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
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.Johann von Goethe
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
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.Jeremy Bentham
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
