Ignorance Quotes

Voltaire

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Dalai Lama

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Horace Mann

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

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. 

Wayne Dyer

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness.

Ingrid Holtby

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Jeremy Taylor

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Will Rogers

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Sophocles

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.

Albert Einstein

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Michael de Montaigne

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

William Gaddis

Paine

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Confucius

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 

Will Durant

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Philip Wylie

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. 

Hazlitt

Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Aldous Huxley

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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