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Ignorance is a lack of knowledge and information. Inspirational ignorance quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

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Most Famous Ignorance Quotes

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. – Mark Twain

The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. – Frank A. Clark

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. – George Orwell

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never heard of. – Ralph B. Perry

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. – Socrates

I didn’t know what you couldn’t do. I didn’t deliberately set out to invent anything. It just seemed to me, ‘Why not?’ There is a great gift that ignorance has to bring to anything, you know. That was the gift I brought to Citizen Kane, ignorance. – Orson Welles

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. – Robert Quillen

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. – Harlan Ellison

Education is a system of imposed ignorance. – Noam Chomsky

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. – Charles Kettering

Ignorance is always afraid of change. – Jawaharlal Nehru

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. – Ann Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. – Plato

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. – Francois Rabelais

The most violent element in society is ignorance. – Emma Goldman

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. – Victor Cousin

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. – Publilius Syrus

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. – Wayne Dyer

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. – Dalai Lama

It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. – Wayne Dyer

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. – Aldous Huxley

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. – Alice Walker

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

… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. – Elbert Hubbard

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. – Aldous Huxley

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. – Aldous Huxley

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. – Confucius

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. – Oscar Wilde

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. – Kofi Annan

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. – Frank Dane

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. – Wes Fessler

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

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. – Max Heindel

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. – Robert Browning

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. – Confucius

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. – Wes Fessler

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. – James Anthony Froude

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. – Richard Dawkins

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

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. – Elbert Hubbard

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. – James Anthony Froude

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. – Isaac Asimov

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. – Oscar Wilde

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. – Samuel Butler

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. – Dalai Lama

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. – Sting

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Ignorance never settles a question. – Benjamin Disraeli

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action. – Steve Maraboli

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

Ignorance never settles a question. – Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. – Publilius Syrus

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance. – David Gross

Ignorance is the mother of admiration. – George Chapman

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin

Don’t let anyone’s ignorance, hate, drama or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be. – Anonymous

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. – Amos Bronson Alcott

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. – John Ruskin

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. – John F. Kennedy

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. – Frank Dane

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. – Herodotus

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. – Robert Staughton Lynd

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. – Plato

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. – Jeremy Taylor

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. – Arthur Conan Doyle

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. – Theodore Dreiser

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. – Terry Pratchett

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Jeff Rich

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. – William Shakespeare

There is no slavery but ignorance. – Robert Green Ingersoll

One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset. – Wallace Stevens

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems. – Naomi Judd

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. – Ann Plato

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. – Michel de Montaigne

Living is easy with eyes closed. – John Lennon

Most people are drowning in their delusional ignorance without knowing that their suffering was created by themselves. – Jakusho Kwong Roshi

War is peace, freedom is slavery, and Ignorance is strength. – George Orwell

Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain. – Euripides

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. – Alfred North Whitehead

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. – Robert Browning

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. – James F. Cooper

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. – Arnold H. Glasow

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. – William Gaddis

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable. – David Brock

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. – William Osler

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. – Karl Popper

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no sin but ignorance. – Christopher Marlowe

It’s indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing. – Diego Luna

Ignorance is always afraid of change. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. – Lao Tzu

I say there is no darkness but ignorance. – William Shakespeare

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. – Isaac Watts

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. – Addison Mizner

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

There is no darkness but ignorance. – William Shakespeare

If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. – Leo Buscaglia

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t. – Mignon McLaughlin

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw

Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance. – Louis D. Brandeis

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the self and the non-self. – Patanjali

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato

To succeed in life, you need two things ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. – Aldous Huxley

Until you can ignore ignorance, neglect negativity, and disregard disrespect, you’re not ready for the next level. Success isn’t for the weak. – Anonymous

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put them. The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, is to confess your ignorance. – Confucius

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. – Francis of Assisi

Ignorance is a menace to peace. – Paul Harris

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. – Hunter S. Thompson

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. – Jean Toomer

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? – Bill Watterson

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. – Bill Richardson

His ignorance is encyclopedic. – Abba Eban

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. – Molly Ivins

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

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. – Samuel Butler

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. – George Bernard Shaw

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. – Will Rogers

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth. – John F. Kennedy

Racism springs from ignorance. – Mario Balotelli

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. – Bertrand Russell

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. – W. Clement Stone

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. – Anonymous

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. It all stems from ignorance. – Jim Rohn

I’ve been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn’t listen. Every time you said ‘Farm Boy do this’ you thought I was answering ‘As you wish’ but that’s only because you were hearing wrong. ‘I love you’ was what it was, but you never heard. – William Goldman

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. – Benjamin Disraeli

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. – Richard Dawkins

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H. L. Mencken

Ignorance is bliss, or so we’re told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny. – Gayle Lynds

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. – John F. Kennedy

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. – Thucydides

Education is a system of imposed ignorance. – Noam Chomsky

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. – Isaac Newton

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. – Victor Cousin

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. – Arnold H. Glasow

To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. – Lao Tzu

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. – Voltaire

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. – Charles B. Rangel