Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

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

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

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

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

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

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

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.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

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

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.