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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

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

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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

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.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

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.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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

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.

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.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

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

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

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

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

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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

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

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

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

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.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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