Quotes about ignorance

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

There's a sucker born every minute.

— P.T. Barnum

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

— Ernest Bevin

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

— Bhagavad Gita

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

— Derek Bok

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.

— Robert Browning

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

— Thomas Carlyle

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

— Frank A. Clark

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

— Confucius

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

— Frank Dane

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

— Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

— Clarence Darrow

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

— Wayne Dyer

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

— Euripides

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

— Anatole France

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

— Benjamin Franklin

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

— Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

— Arnold H. Glasgow

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

— Thomas Gray

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

— William Hazlitt

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

— Eric Hoffer

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

— Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

— Aldous Huxley

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.

— Brian Hwang

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

— Milena Jesenska

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

— Nicholas Ling

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

— Horace Mann

Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

— Harry Mendelson

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

— Sir William Osler

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

— Irene Peter

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

— Proverb

What you don't know can't hurt you .

— Proverb

You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

— American Proverb

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

— Arabian Proverb

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

— Haitian Proverb

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

— Will Rogers

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

— William Shakespeare

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

— Sydney Smith

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

— William Paley

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

— Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

— Publilius Syrus

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

— Thucydides

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

— John Tillotson

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

— Mark Twain

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

— Mark Twain

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

— Source Unknown

In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

— Source Unknown

Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

— Source Unknown

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

— Source Unknown

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

— Source Unknown

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

— Oscar Wilde

Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.

— Aldous Huxley

O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;

— William Shakespeare

The fact of ignoring your duties does erase neither the responsibility nor accountability off your head...not for a single moment.

— Jhurry Muhummad Anas

Ignoring a fact never fades away its reality.

— Jhurry Muhummad Anas

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

— Vanna Bonta

Own your ignorance, so someone else doesn't end up paying for it.

— A. Brandon Trean