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“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
Terry Pratchett
“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.”
Heraclitus
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King
“ The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
Socrates
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
Socrates
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Isaac Asimov
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
Plato
“All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.”
Mark Twain
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
Confucius
“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
Plato
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
Plato
“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
Plato
“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
Euripides
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
Aldous Huxley
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.”
Victor Hugo
“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
William Shakespeare
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
William Shakespeare
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”
William Shakespeare
“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Winston Churchill
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
Maya Angelou
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
Maya Angelou
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
Maya Angelou
