Quotes About Ignorance

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Some people would rather die than think.

You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.

Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

If you're entitled, you likely think you know more than you do.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.