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

Galileo Galilei

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Confucius

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

Spanish Proverb

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith

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

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur.

Daniel J. Boorstin

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words.

Gamaliel Bradford

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Adam Hastings

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

Pema Chodron

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

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Bernard Berenson

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Irene Peter

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Paul Gauguin

By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least.

John Gay

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

Jimmy Buffett

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

Robert Quillen

Why do we live like this? Is it because it's true that ignorance is bliss?

Ahmedin Jemal

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Will Rogers

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

John Tillotson

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

John Abbott

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

If ignorance is bliss, then I'd hope to, one day, be MultiOrgasmic.

Aaron Howard

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Abba Eban

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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

Socrates

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

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

Herodotus

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Victor Cousin

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

Rudyard Kipling

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Confucius

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Albert Einstein

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Whose broken out in a rash of ignorance?

Anne Robinson

We can avoid ignorance with education. Please give importance to this. If you have a kid, please send them to school.

Julio Fernandez

The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Margaret Sanger

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Don Wood

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.

Richard Feynman

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Guy Debord

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Leslie Stephen

It was just done out of ignorance.

Jim Rice

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

"God's plan" is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Mary Daly

Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

John Selden

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Enrico Fermi

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Ben Jonson

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Ingersoll

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Thomas C. Haliburton

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Dr. Joseph Smith

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Toomer

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

Latin Proverb

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Michael Schudson

We're dealing with two types of ignorance, about Islam and about the freedom of speech.

Sohaib Bencheikh

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

Isaac Asimov

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sidney Hook

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

It's ignorance, and it's really not knowing what's out there.

Heather Mcdonald

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Heraclitus

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

When [the Alligator] ran that cartoon, we had presumed it was out of ignorance.

Sheridan Murphy

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

Ambrose Bierce

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jeremy Taylor

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa

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

Horace Porter

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Isaac Watts

Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

Sir Anthony Hawkins

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

Anatole France

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

James Beattie

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Tehyi Hsieh

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

When somebody states a wrong fact, abusing the ignorance of people, and gains from that, that is one of the gravest crimes.

Luigi Cascioli

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Mark Twain

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

Hugh Williams

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

Robert Millikan

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Richard Whatley

This is a war on ignorance, a war on scientific ignorance.

Leon Lederman

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan

Blameless ignorance. It's an unfortunate sign of the times.

David Fricke

We can't go to war based on ignorance.

Scott Ritter

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of the day? So, O man! as you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Ramakrishna

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Benedict Spinoza

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell

Reconciliation comes through education and dialogue. This helps us dispel ignorance and allows us to appreciate one another's humanity.

Dawud Walid

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Haitian Proverb

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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

Bob Edwards

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

Christopher Marlowe

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

He has made that statement in ignorance.

Peter Cox

I think it's ignorance of both the Christian religion and politics to think that Christians have to be Republican.

Amy Moore

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

Mark Crispin Miller

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Jean Vanier

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

James Fenimore Cooper

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

There's a lot of ignorance. One day I hope you'll invite an HIV-positive person to this forum.

Teresa Parker

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Graffiti

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Frank Layden

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

Karl Popper

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Cotton Mather

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Addison Mizner

If ignorance is bliss the world is comfortably surrounded by the inhabitants of an Eden!

Don Williams, Jr

Le peu que je sais, c'est à mon ignorance que je le dois. (The little I know I owe to my ignorance.)

Sacha Guitry