Quotes About Ignorance

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.