Ignorance quotes

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” Warren Buffett

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.” Henry Miller

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

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.” Blaise Pascal

“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.” Blaise Pascal

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.” Blaise Pascal

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” Thomas Paine

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” Bill Gates

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

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass

“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” Richard Dawkins

“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.” Richard Dawkins

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” Charles Darwin

“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.” Bertrand Russell

“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” Carl Sagan

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.” John Adams

“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 the butterfly.” Richard Bach

“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” Robert Browning

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce

“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.” Ambrose Bierce

“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.” Ambrose Bierce