65 Popular Ignorance Quote

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Ignorance Quotes :

• “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

Quotes About Ignorance :

• “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

Best Ignorance Quote :

• “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

Popular Ignorance Quote :

• “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

Quotes On Ignorance :

• “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

Knowledge And Ignorance Quotes :

• “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

Ignorance Quotes In English :

• “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