Memorable Ignorance Quotes

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"Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates
"Ignorance is bold, knowledge reserved."
Thucydides
"Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - the look that means all is said."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance."
Samuel Butler
"Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion."
Philip Wylie
"Ignorance is always afraid of the truth."
Unknown
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"Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended."
Thomas Jefferson
"Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity."
Kofi Annan
"Ignorance and prejudice are the breeding grounds of fear."
James H. Aughey
"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
Plato
"Ignorance, like darkness, covers and yet directs."
Robert Burton
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance."
Confucius
"Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin
"Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are."
Friedrich A. Hayek
"Ignorance is nothing to be proud of."
Ed Koch
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
Benjamin Franklin
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
Lucy Toulmin Smith
"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
James F. Cooper
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"Ignorance, the uncultivated mind, is the root of all misery and vice."
Alfred Nobel
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Saul Bellow
"Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion."
Philip Wylie
"Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you."
Jay M. Bylsma
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."
Confucius
"Ignorance is the eclipse of the mind."
Jeremy Taylor
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy."
Wendell Phillips
"Ignorance is a condition that becomes apparent when we realize our vital interests at stake."
Khalil Gibran
"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin
"Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free."
Bill Richardson
"The only way to combat ignorance is through knowledge."
Louis L'Amour
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star."
Confucius
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"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
Robert Browning
"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head."
Michel de Montaigne
"Ignorance is the mother of all evils."
Francois Rabelais
"Ignorance is not knowing; stupidity is knowing and not doing."
Jeffrey Fry
"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits."
Lytton Strachey
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."
Benjamin Franklin
"Ignorance is not bliss, but agony. With knowledge comes power, and with that power comes responsibility."
Erin Hunter
"Ignorance, the confident boast of the presumptuous, is the fall of the less resourceful."
Anonymous
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Isaac Asimov
"One of the greatest joys in life is the process of learning. Ignorance robs you of that pleasure."
Anonymous
"Ignorance is not an excuse, it is a choice."
Anonymous
"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it."
Publilius Syrus
"Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved."
Thucydides
"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."
Sophocles
"Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone."
Oscar Wilde
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
Bruce Lee
"Ignorance never settles a question."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Charles Darwin
"Ignorance is always afraid of change."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"There is no darkness but ignorance."
William Shakespeare
"Only the educated are free."
Epictetus
"Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity."
Jonathan Swift
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Plato
"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."
Thucydides
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
George Bernard Shaw
"To ignore reality is to invite chaos."
Ayn Rand
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance."
Unknown
"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
Horace Mann
"Ignore those who cling to ignorance, but stand close to those who seek knowledge."
Unknown
"It is not shame to be wrong, but it is shame to stay wrong when corrected."
Molière
"Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts, it can spread rapidly."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking
"To conquer ignorance is the attainment of knowledge."
Unknown
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
Confucius
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice."
Unknown
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
William Shakespeare
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Socrates
"Ignorance is not bliss; it is a dangerous path to choose."
Unknown
"Knowledge is power. Ignorance is slavery."
Miles Kington
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Herman Melville
"Through ignorance, we waste opportunities for growth."
Unknown
"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
Oscar Wilde
"The only way to combat ignorance is through education."
Malala Yousafzai
"Ignorance is often the mother of cruelty."
Charles Dickens
"A society can only be as strong as its commitment to eradicate ignorance."
Unknown
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
Confucius
"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."
Albert Einstein
"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
John Heywood
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
Albert Einstein
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
Benjamin Franklin
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
Elbert Hubbard
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Dorothy Parker
"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
Epictetus
"To know, to think, to dream. That is what matters."
Victor Hugo
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Unknown
"It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true."
Mark Twain
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom."
Aristotle
"Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune."
Nicholas Boileau
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
Kahlil Gibran
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know."
Albert Einstein
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