ignorance quotes

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

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

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.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds 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.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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