Ignorance Quotes

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Charles J. C. Lyall

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - It is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann von Goethe

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