Ignorance Quotes

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

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

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.

Ignorance never settles a question.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.