Quotes About Ignorance

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

Schools teach ignorance.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Some people still think knowledge is power.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.