Ignorance Quotes
45 quotations about Ignorance
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Authors on Ignorance
Amos Bronson Alcott
American Proverb
Arabian Proverb
P.T. Barnum
Ernest Bevin
Derek Bok
Robert Browning
Thomas Carlyle
Marcus T. Cicero
Frank A. Clark
Confucius
Clarence Darrow
Benjamin Disraeli
Wayne Dyer
Euripides
Anatole France
Benjamin Franklin
Arnold H. Glasgow
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Thomas Gray