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Quotes About Ignorance

Its really hard to love him when he doesnt even know.
~ Unknown
Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.
~ Unknown
Time can never mend the careless whisper of a good friend. To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind. There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
~ George Michael
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
~ Euripides
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
~ Isaac Asimov
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
~ George Eliot
It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
They say even death can't cure an idiot.-Ririn
~ Tite Kubo
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
~ Heinrich Heine
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
~ Charles Darwin
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
~ Gautama Buddha
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
~ Ayn Rand
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
~ Erich Fromm
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
~ Garth Stein
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fate is nonawareness.
~ Jan Kott
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
~ Mark Twain
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
~ Benjamin Franklin