Quotes About Ignorance

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.