Quotes on Ignorance

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Author: Amos Alcott

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.

Author: Maya Angelou

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Author: Jeremy Bentham

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

Author: Carla Bley

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Author: Warren Buffett

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Author: Abigail Buren

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

Author: Nancy Cartwright

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Author: Bennett Cerf

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Author: William Channing

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Author: Frank Clark

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Author: James Cooper

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Author: Victor Cousin

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Author: Jackie DeShannon

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Author: Wayne Dyer

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Author: Crystal Eastman

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Author: Abba Eban

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

Author: Bob Edwards

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Author: Tryon Edwards

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Author: Jean Fontaine

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

Author: Anatole France

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Author: William Gaddis

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Author: Sacha Guitry

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Author: Robert Hamilton

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Author: Sydney Harris

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Author: William Hazlitt

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

Author: Kin Hubbard

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Author: Victor Hugo

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Author: Aldous Huxley

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

I'm against ignorance.

Author: Herman Kahn

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

Author: Charles Kettering

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

Author: George Kimble

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

Author: Martin King, Jr.

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

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Author: Morris Kline

There is no sin but ignorance.

Author: Christopher Marlowe

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Author: Cotton Mather

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

Author: Mignon McLaughlin

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Author: Gian Menotti

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Author: Michel Montaigne

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

Author: Paul More

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Author: Guru Nanak

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Author: William Osler

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Author: Irene Peter

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Author: Laurence Peter

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Author: Petrarch

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Author: Victoria Principal

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Author: John Rawls

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Author: Ron Reagan

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

Author: Bill Richardson

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Author: Will Rogers

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Author: Will Rogers

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Author: John Ruskin

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Author: Percy Shelley

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Author: Herbert Spencer

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Author: Baruch Spinoza

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Author: Wallace Stevens

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Author: Sting

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Author: Jeremy Taylor

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Author: Leonardo Vinci

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Author: Charles Warner

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Author: Isaac Watts

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Author: William Wills

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Author: Philip Wylie

In the pursuit of knowledge, embrace the power of doubt as a guiding light through the shadow of ignorance.

Author: Maya Patel

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence

Author: Mark Twain