Ignorance Quotes

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

~ George Eliot

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

~ Henry Miller

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

~ Baltasar Gracián

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

~ Rosemary Mahoney

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

~ David Gross

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

~ Eva Longoria

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

~ David Furnish

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

~ Patton Oswalt

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

~ Edward Albert

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

~ Saint Patrick

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

~ Marjane Satrapi

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

~ Isaiah Berlin

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

~ Anna Quindlen

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

~ Paul Gauguin

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

~ Martin Rees

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

~ Montel Williams

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

~ Mary Astell

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

~ Richard Dawkins

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

~ Timothy Noah

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

~ Will Rogers

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

~ Akhenaton

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

~ Maimonides

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

~ Saadi

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

~ Cyril Connolly

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

~ 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.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

~ Tom Smothers

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

~ Paul Harris

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

~ Sting

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

~ Horace Porter

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

~ Haile Selassie

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

~ Hillary Clinton

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

~ David Crosby

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru