Quotes About Ignorance

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.