Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

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

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.