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

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

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.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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

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

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.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

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

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.

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

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

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than 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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.