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109+ Ignorance Quotes And Sayings

Ignorance is lack of knowledge or information. Ignorance is common. This is a instinctive habit of human being. This are 109+ Ignorance quotes and sayings.


1. Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. Thucy
2. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius
3. Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. Plato
4. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
5. There is no darkness but ignorance. William Shakespeare
6. The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler
7. Racism springs from ignorance. Mario Balotelli
8. It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. Mignon McLaughlin
9. Prejudice is the child of ignorance. William Hazlitt
10. Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. Michel de Montaigne
11. Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Jimmy Buffett
12. Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. William Gaddis
13. Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. John Tillotson
14. Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru
15. It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch
16. Ignorance is the mother of all evils. Francois Rabelais
17. Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. Arnold H. Glasow
18. Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny. Gayle Lynds
19. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi
20. Ignorance is a menace to peace. Paul Harris
21. Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning
22. Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. Addison Mizner
23. Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy. Tom Tancredo
24. Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable. David Brock
25. Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature. Masanobu Fukuoka
26. There is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe
27. Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. Philip Wylie
28. There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll
29. Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. Jean de La Fontaine
30. Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. Euripides
31. Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. Anatole France
32. Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. Robert Green Ingersoll
33. Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. Adlai E. Stevenson
34. Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care. Willie Wells
35. Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. Henry David Thoreau
36. Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix. Yuval Noah Harari
37. Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. Sydney J. Harris
38. Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you. Larry Wilcox
39. Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Ben Jonson
40. Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers. Samantha Power
41. Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Mary Astell
42. Ignorance is the mother of admiration. George Chapman
43. Ignorance breeds fear. Mike Wilson
44. Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. James Beattie
45. Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. Irene Peter
46. Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. Victor Cousin
47. Innocence is ignorance. Lynne Reid Banks
48. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell
49. Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. Eoin Colfer
50. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
51. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
52. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
53. Education is a system of imposed ignorance. Noam Chomsky
54. If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. Victor Cousin
55. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
56. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Robert Orben
57. A man is responsible for his ignorance. Milan Kundera
58. Ignorance is the parent of fear. Herman Melville
59. The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. Napoléon Bonaparte
60. There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. Hippocrates
61. Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. Dalai Lama XIV
62. Ignorance is the cause of fear. Seneca
63. 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
64. Only ignorance excuses stupidity. Nalini Singh
65. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. Lois McMaster Bujold
66. Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. Jasper Fforde
67. Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. Robert Fulghum
68. Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. Eoin Colfer
69. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Thomas Fuller
70. Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. Garth Nix
71. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. Warren Buffett
72. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson II
73. It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. Charles Darwin
74. Science is the topography of ignorance. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
75. Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. Anthony de Mello
76. The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor. A.R. Bernard
77. Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free. Jonathan Hennessey
78. I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Reuben Blades
79. Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. Isaac Watts
80. Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance. Suzy Kassem
81. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Stephen R. Covey
82. Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. Marc Bekoff
83. Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. Mercedes Lackey
84. His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban
85. Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. Louis L'Amour
86. We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. Michael Bassey Johnson
87. The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. Dan Simmons
88. Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance. Liu Cixin
89. Evil is relatively rare; ignorance is epidemic. Jon Stewart
90. Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. George Eliot
91. But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible. Jane Austen
92. The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. William Osler
93. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Horace Mann
94. Mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination. S. Spencer Baker
95. Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth. Craig D. Lounsbrough
96. And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials. Epictetus
97. Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is. Joanna Russ
98. Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. William Beveridge
99. Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. Dejan Stojanovic
100. There is no true bliss in ignorance. Joseph Deitch
101. Ignorance is curable. Refusing to learn is not. E. Michael Helms
102. Ignorance is a fine line that separates right and wrong. Yash Thakur
103. As you become richer your color ignorance shows. Anthony T. Hincks
104. Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru
105. To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. Ann Plato
106. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
107. Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli
108. Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
109. Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde
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