Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
~By Charles Darwin ~
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
~By George Eliot ~
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~By William Penn ~
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
~By James Beattie ~
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
~By Robert Millikan ~
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
~By Anthony Hope ~
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
~By Horace Porter ~
I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
~By William Osler ~
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
~By George Kimble ~
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~By Saul Bellow ~
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
~By Donald Kagan ~
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.
~By Albert Camus ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
~By Mary Wortley ~
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
~By William Wirt ~
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
~By Morris Kline ~
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
~By Ann Plato ~
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.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
~By Bell Hooks ~
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
There is no darkness but ignorance.
~By William Shakespeare ~
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
~By George H. White ~
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
~By Petrarch ~
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
~By Voltaire ~
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
~By Carla Bley ~
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
~By Sacha Guitry ~
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
~By Ron Reagan ~
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
~By William Shakespeare ~
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
~By Paul Elmer More ~
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
~By Hippocrates ~
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
~By Confucius ~
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
~By George Bancroft ~
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
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.
~By Saint Teresa ~
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
~By William John Wills ~
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
~By John Strachan ~
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
~By Carter Burwell ~
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
~By Will Durant ~
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.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
~By Edward Irving ~
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
~By Mary Daly ~
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.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
~By John Tillotson ~
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
~By Philip Wylie ~
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
~By Mark Twain ~
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.
~By Plato ~
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
~By Herodotus ~
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
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?
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
~By Dean Henry Cole ~
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
~By Winston Churchill ~
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.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
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.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
~By Guru Nanak ~
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
~By Harry Lorayne ~
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