Ignorance Quotes
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.