Quotes About Ignorance

Wisdom of the Ages "News People" Always joking around and happy. I guess that proves that ignorance really is bliss.

Someone has opened the flood gates of stupidity...

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

People would rather believe than know.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.