Ignorance Quotes

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

~ Ryan White

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

~ Isaac Asimov

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.

~ Plato

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

~ Bill Watterson

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

~ Pauline Phillips

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

~ Christopher Marlowe

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

~ Bill Maher

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

~ Isaac Asimov

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.

~ Albert Camus

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

~ Enrico Fermi

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

~ Luis Gutierrez

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

~ Gustave Flaubert

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

~ James A. Baldwin

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

~ Joy Page

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

~ William Shakespeare

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

~ Confucius

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

~ George Bernard Shaw

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

~ Thomas Sowell

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

~ Robert Quillen

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

~ Plato

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

~ John F. Kennedy

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

~ William Penn

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

~ Terry Pratchett

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.

~ Bertrand Russell

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

~ Isaac Asimov

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

~ Karl Popper

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

~ Robert Andrews Millikan

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

~ Will Durant

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

~ Enrico Fermi

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

~ Herodotus

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

~ Arnold H. Glasow