Ignorance Quotes

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.