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