Quotes About Ignorance

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.