Ignorance Quotes
Ignorance Quotes & Sayings
Here I have collected some of my favorite quotes about ignorance. I liked them and hope you will also like these inspirational quotes.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
George Kimble
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
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.
Blaise Pascal
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce Sterling
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
Saul Bellow
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
John Dewey
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
Jeff Foxworthy
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Norman Juster
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Author unknown
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
Graffiti
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born... is to live the life of a child for ever.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Horace Mann
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde.
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasow
Let others know what you think of these quotes by leaving a comment below.