Ignorance Quotes

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

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

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

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.

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.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

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

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

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