40 Ignorance Quotes
Ignorance Quotes
1. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
-Mark Twain
2. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
-George Orwell
3. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.”
-Benjamin Franklin
4. “Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. “Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.”
-Richard Dawkins
6. “Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.”
-Oscar Wilde
7. “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
-Dalai Lama
8. “I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
-Cicero
9. “Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”
-George Chapman
10. “The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
-John F. Kennedy
11. “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
-Confucius
12. “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
-Plato
13. “In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.”
-Theodore Dreiser
14. “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
-William Shakespeare
15. “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
-Robert Quillen
16. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
-Jeff Rich
17. “Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.”
-David Gross
18. “One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset.”
-Wallace Stevens
19. “His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
-Arthur Conan Doyle
20. “Ignorance is the mother of all evils.”
-Francois Rabelais
21. “Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
-Publilius Syrus
22. “To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.”
-Ann Plato
23. “Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”
-Aldous Huxley
24. “Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.”
-Euripides
25. “The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
-Herodotus
26. “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
-Socrates
27. “One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”
-Robert Staughton Lynd
28. “Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.”
-James Anthony Froude
29. “Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.”
-Wes Fessler
30. “Ignorance never settles a question.”
-Benjamin Disraeli
31. “To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.”
-John Ruskin
32. “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
-Emma Goldman
33. “There is no slavery but ignorance.”
-Robert Green Ingersoll
34. “It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”
-Sting
35. “To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”
-Jeremy Taylor
36. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
-Wayne Dyer
37. “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
38. “The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
-Elbert Hubbard
39. “The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.”
-Max Heindel
40. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
