Quotes of Ignorance - somelinesforyou

“ I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ”

- Anatole France

“ Ignorance never settles a question. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. ”

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bob Edwards

“ Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. ”

- Confucius

“ Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. ”

- Don Wood

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

- Enrico Fermi

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known. ”

- Francis Jeffrey

“ I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. ”

- George Eliot

“ It is better to confess ignorance than provide it. ”

- Homer Hickam

“ Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. ”

- Hugo De Groot

“ If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ 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

“ It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ Nothing is worse than active ignorance. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. ”

- John Tillotson

“ Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. ”

- Plato

“ Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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