ignorance quotes

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

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

— Isaac Asimov

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

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

“All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.”

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

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

“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

— Aldous Huxley

“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.”

— Victor Hugo

“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

— Maya Angelou

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

— Maya Angelou

“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

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

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

— Henry Miller

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

— James Madison

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Thomas Paine

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

— Frederick Douglass

“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”

— Richard Dawkins

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