The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
 |
| Ignorance Quotes |
Benjamin Disraeli
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: 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
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Eoin Colfer
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G.K. Chesterton
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John Lennon
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
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 the butterfly.
Richard Bach
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris
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
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
