Quotes About Ignorance

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. —Heinrich Heine

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

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

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.