Quotes About Ignorance

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

ante la ignorancia se puede inventar—.

Romper con el pasado es de ignorantes —decía—. No se puede anteponer la originalidad a la belleza.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.