Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

George Chapman

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

James Bridie

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

Thomas Carlyle

There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.

Charles J. C. Lyall

Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

Sir Anthony Hawkins

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

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

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

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