Quotes About Ignorance

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, stick fiery off indeed.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't and he's not robb'd at all.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

But thou art all my art, and dost advance As high as learning my rude ignorance.

Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." [PERTH, 28 MAY 1948]

anti-Semitism may be a good starter, but it is a bad sticker.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

The history of culture indicates that stupidity is the twin sister of reason, it grows most luxuriously not on the soil of virgin ignorance, but on soil cultivated by the sweat of doctors and professors.