Ignorance Quotes @Quotio

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

9,139

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

7,791

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. -Alfred North Whitehead

7,548

Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

7,515

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

4,407

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. -Saint Jerome

4,311

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

2,192

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

1,341

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. -Robert Browning

1,113

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

1,057

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

969

Nothing is worse than active ignorance. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

690

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

580

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

296

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

285

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

267

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

262

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

258

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Adam Hastings

252

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

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