The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J Boorstin
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
- Eric Hoffer
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
- Bhagavad Gita
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai Stevenson
Ignorance never settles a question.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
- Bennett Cerf
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
- Brian Hwang
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
- Horace Mann
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
- Frank Dane
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
- Ernest Bevin
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
- Galileo
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
- Anthony J Dangelo
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
- Robert Browning
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
- Robert Burton
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
- Thomas Hood
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
- Wayne Dyer
The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
- Ming Lum Paou Keen
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
- Goethe
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
- Graffiti
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- Hazlitt
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
- Homer
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
- Samuel Butler
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
- James Anthony Froude
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
- James Beattie
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
- Jean de la Fontaine
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
- John Locke
