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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
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
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. – Horace Mann
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 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
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
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
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. – Benjamin Disraeli
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
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. – Victor Cousin
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. – Arnold H. Glasow
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
