Quotes About Ignorance

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.