Ignorance Quotes

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

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.

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

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

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

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

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

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

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

There is no slavery but ignorance.