Ignorance Quotes

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stupidity, Nothing, Dangerous

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

Failure, Envy, Philosophy

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stupidity, Nothing, Dangerous

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill

Truth, End, May

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

Mother, School, Said

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Dangerous, False

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama

Peace, Real, Master

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

God, Knowledge, Heaven

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

Knowledge, Real, Extent

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

Success, Confidence, Sure

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Power, Society

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

Children, Talent, Endure

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

Life, Confidence, Two

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

Highest, Reject

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

Knowledge, Realize, Takes

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

Nature, Truth, Soon

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

Democracy, Security, Voter

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

Giving, Touch, Opinions

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Nothing, Wrong

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

Society, Justice, Made

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

Alone, Survive, Prevail

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge, Greater, Increases

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Knowledge, True

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

Power, Knowledge, Mean

There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran

Art, Knowledge, Silence

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge, Wisdom, Temple

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates

Nothing, Fact, Except

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Daughter, Admiration

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