65 Popular Ignorance Quote

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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” ~Christian Nestell Bovee
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” ~James Madison
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” ~Derek Bok
“Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.” ~Richard Dawkins
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.” ~Anatole France
“Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.” ~Thucydides
“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” ~Adlai Stevenson
“A man is responsible for his ignorance.” ~Milan Kundera
“Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.” ~Jean De La Fontaine
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.” ~Robert Quillen

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~Will Durant
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from.” ~Galileo Galilei
“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.” ~Charles B. Rangel
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” ~William Shakespeare
“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” ~Robert Browning
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” ~Dalai Lama
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~Winston Churchill
“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.” ~Hunter S. Thompson
“There is no sin but ignorance.” ~Christopher Marlowe
“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” ~Emma Goldman

“Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.” ~Ogden Nash
“Fear always springs from ignorance.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” ~W. Clement Stone
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.” ~Terry Pratchett
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” ~Benjamin Franklin
“We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.” ~Sharon Salzberg
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~Martin Luther King
“Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.” ~Patrick Rothfuss
“I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.” ~Clarence Darrow
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” ~H. L. Mencken

“Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.” ~James A Froude
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ~Rita Mae Brown
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” ~Thomas Sowell
“The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.” ~Brian Hwang
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” ~Francis Of Assisi
“Truth is by nature selfevident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ~Soren Kierkegaard
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.” ~Hazlitt
“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.” ~Victor Cousin

“Ignorance never settles a question.” ~Benjamin Disraeli
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin
“Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.” ~Gordon B. Hinckley
“The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.” ~Ming Lum Paou Keen
“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” ~Confucius
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” ~Plato
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ~Socrates
“Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.” ~Jean Vanier
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.” ~Euripides
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” ~Mark Twain

“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.” ~Hippocrates
“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.” ~James Beattie
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ~Harlan Ellison
“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
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.” ~Joseph Wood Krutch
“Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.” ~Thomas Gray
“The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.” ~Samuel Butler
“Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.” ~Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.” ~Herbert Spencer
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” ~Wayne Dyer

“Who ne’er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.” ~Homer
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” ~Margaret Atwood
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.” ~William Penn
“How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”
~Petrarch
“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.” ~Karl Popper

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