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

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of 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.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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

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 first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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

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.

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

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.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

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

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own 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.

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.

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

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

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

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.

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.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

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

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.

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