I leave you the best quotes about ignorance from excellent authors such as Benjamin Franklin, Plato, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Winston Churchill, Karl Popper and many more.
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-The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. –Herodotus.
-The greater our knowledge, the more we realize our ignorance. -John F. Kennedy.
-Knowledge slowly builds what ignorance destroys in an hour. –George Eliot.
-Ignorance is the mother of all evils. –François Rabelais.
-There is nothing more terrible than watching ignorance in action. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
-Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. –Michel de Montaigne.
-When ignorance grows, it knows no limits. –Will Rogers.
-The threshold to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance. -Benjamin Franklin.
-The biggest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Daniel J. Boorstin.
-Science is the mother of knowledge, but opinion generates ignorance. -Hippocrates.
-Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without a moon or without a star. -Confucius.
-The true knowledge lies in knowing the magnitude of our ignorance. -Confucius.
-All evil things begin with ignorance. -Ernest Hemingway.
-It takes a considerable amount of knowledge to know the dimension of our own ignorance. –Thomas Sowell.
-Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil. -Plato.
-Being ignorant is not as shameful as not being willing to learn. -Benjamin Franklin.
-All you need in this life is ignorance and trust, and your success will be assured. -Mark Twain.
-They say that a little knowledge is dangerous, but it is not half as bad as a lot of ignorance. –Terry Pratchett.
-The only victories that do not leave regret are those that are won against ignorance. –Napoleon Bonaparte.
-Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing on which we fly to heaven. -William Shakespeare.
-We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does our coast of ignorance. –John Archibald Wheeler.
-If you think education is expensive, deal with ignorance. –Jeff Rich.
-If ignorance is a blessing, then there should be more happy people. –Victor Cousin.
-Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. –Karl Popper.
-Ignorance is the main source of all misery and vices. –Victor Cousin.
-The truth is indisputable. Malice can attack you, ignorance can ridicule you, but in the end, it's still there. –Winston Churchill.
-I believe that religion is nothing more than a child's toy, and that there is no sin other than ignorance. –Cristopher Marlowe.
-It is indifference and ignorance that prevent people from doing the right thing. –Diego Luna.
-His ignorance was as extraordinary as his knowledge. –Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
-A discussion is an exchange of knowledge; a fight is an exchange of ignorance. –Robert Quillen.
-Is there something that science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power, power to do good and bad things. Therefore, sometimes ignorance is a blessing. –Paul Davies.
-The most violent element in society is ignorance. –Emma Goldman.
-The theory helps us to eliminate ignorance of the facts. –George Santayana.
-Beware of false knowledge. It is even more dangerous than ignorance. –George Bernard Shaw.
-It is better to be ignorant about something than to know it half. –Publilio Siro.
-All minds were made to grow, for knowledge, and they sin against their nature when they are condemned to ignorance. –William Ellery Channing.
-Both in friendship as in love, ignorance often contributes more to our happiness than to our knowledge. –François de la Rochefoucauld.
-Your ignorance is encyclopedic. –Abba Eban.
-Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. –HL Mencken.
-Ignorance never stops being in vogue. It was in the fashion of yesterday, in the rage of today and will determine the rhythm of tomorrow. –Frank Dane.
-Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference and apathy. –Tom Tacredo.
-If I don't have wisdom, I can only teach you ignorance. –Leo Buscaglia.
-The envy comes from the envy of the people, or the lack of belief in their own gifts. –Jean Vanier.
-Ignorance is a blessing or so they tell us. I personally think that ignorance is also a destiny. –Garle Lynds.
-Ignorance is not a blessing, it is forgetting. –Phillip Wylie.
-The facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. –Aldous Huxley.
-Eliminating ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. –Ann Plato.
-Natural selection will not eliminate the ignorance of future generations. –Richard Dawkins.
-Where charity and wisdom exist, there is neither fear nor ignorance. -San Francisco de Asis.
-Living is easy with your eyes closed. -John Lennon.
-The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. -John Rawls.
-Idealism does not protect us from ignorance, dogmatism and stupidity. –Sidney Hook.
-Humility and knowledge overcome pride and ignorance in an expensive suit. –William Penn.
-In order to be wise, we must have ignorance. –Theodore Dreiser.
-In the confrontations between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is usually the aggressor. –Paul Harris.
-The greatest pride or the greatest discouragement is the greatest ignorance of our being. –Baruch Spinoza.
-There is nothing good in trying to stop the advance of knowledge. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. –Enrico Fermi.
-Ignorance and thoughtlessness are the two greatest causes of the ruin of humanity. –John Tillotson.
-War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. –George Orwell.
-Extremism grows very well between ignorance, anger, intimidation and cowardice. -Hillary Clinton.
-Ignorance always fears change. –Jawaharlal Nehru.
-I don't know anything except my ignorance. -Socrates.
-Everyone is ignorant, only in different things. –Will Rogers.
-Against logic there is no better armor than ignorance. –Laurence J. Peter.
-Ignorance is the domain of the absurd. –James Anthony Froude.
-Being proud to learn is the greatest ignorance. –Jeremy Taylor.
-From ignorance and fear come prejudice and division. –David Furnish.
-Prayer is an honorable declaration of ignorance. –Victor Hugo.
-There is no darkness, but ignorance. -William Shakespeare.
-Ignorance, of all things, is not a bad or terrible or excessive, or the worst of them. But great cunning and much learning, accompanied by poor training are a much greater misfortune. -Plato.
-The opinion is the middle point between knowledge and ignorance. -Plato.
-Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants, and the illustration of the salvation of the free. –Bill Richardson.
-Far and farther, the greatest threat to the ocean, and therefore to us, is ignorance. But we can do something about it. –Sylvia Earle.
-Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. –William Gaddis.
-Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance, and it is the progenitor of anger and hatred. –Edward Albert.
-The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. –Elbert Hubbard.
-Ignorance is daring, and knowledge reserved. –Tucidides.
-If ignorance is a blessing, it is ignorance to be wise. –Thomas Gray.
-Ignorance is not innocence but a sin. –Robert Browning.
- Racism, in my opinion, is a sign of ignorance. These are the kind of people who have not gone anywhere or seen the world. –Tyson Fury.
-It is easier to hide ignorance than to acquire knowledge. –Arnold H. Glasow.
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance. –William Hazlitt.
-Our knowledge is a mirage that recedes into a continually expanding desert of ignorance. –Will Durant.
-Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. –Martin Luther King Jr.
-Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. –Will Durant.
-Why waste time learning if ignorance is instantaneous? –Bill Watterson.
-Reason obeys itself, and ignorance is subjugated to whatever it commands. –Thomas Paine.
-I don't think ignorance is the way to gain distance from something. –Alice Sebold.
-Curiosity killed the cat, but as far as humans are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. –Harry Lorayne.
-The first magic of love is our ignorance that it never knows an end. –Benjamin Disraeli.
-If ignorance is our master, there is no possibility for true peace. -Dalai Lama.
-Behind every discussion is someone's ignorance. –Louis D. Brandeis.
-The understanding of ignorance is the first act of knowledge. –Jean Toomer.
-It is true that ignorance, in alliance with power, is the fiercest enemy that justice can have. –James A. Baldwin.
-The unfortunate thing about this planet is that there is no shortage of ignorance. -Ne-Yo.
-When you argue with someone wiser than yourself so that others can admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. –Saadi.
-Racism is born from ignorance. –Mario Balotelli.
-The mother of wonders is not ignorance, but knowledge. –Joseph Wood Krutch.
-A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate extent of his ignorance. –Giancarlo Menotti.
-The truth will always be the truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. –W. Clement Stone.
-Men are born ignorant, not stupid. Education makes them dumb. –Bertrand Russell.
-The reason why there is so much ignorance is because those who have it, have a lot of desire to share it. –Frank A. Clark.
-Ignorance and error are necessary for life, like bread and water. –Anatole France.
-Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. -Benjamin Franklin.
-The information age has become the age of ignorance. –Mark Crispin Miller.
-In not practicing ignorance lies wisdom. –Bodhidharma.
-Ignorance never solves a question. –Benjamin Disraeli.
-Ignorance, hatred and greed are a mortal nature. –Masanobu Fukuoka.
-How difficult it is to save the crust from the reputation of the rocks of ignorance. –Francesco Petrarca.
-I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. -Cíceron.
-It is not ignorance, if not the ignorance of ignorance, the death of knowledge. –Alfred North Whitehead.
-We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. –Crhistian Nestell Bovee.
-The worst form of ignorance is when you reject something you know nothing about. –Wayne Dyer.
-Ignorance and prejudices are qualities of bad counselors. –Samantha Power.
-Ignorance is a danger to peace. –Paul Harris.
-The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism. –William Osler.
-Let ignorance speak what it wants, learning has its value. –Jean de la Fontaine.
-In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
-Never forget that public ignorance is the government's best friend.
-Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. -Herbert Spencer.
-The conflict is born of ignorance and suspicion. –Gordon B. Hinckley.
-The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. –Lyndon B. Johnson.
-Ideas are only deadly if you suppress them and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not a blessing, it is stupidity. –Anna Quindlen.
-The ignorance of one's own misfortunes is clearly an advantage. –Euripides.
-A large part of the intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. –Saul Bellow.