We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
Michael Schudson

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Frederick Soddy

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
Larry McMurtry

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasow

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
Anna Garlin Spencer

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Paul Elmer More

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Jean Henri Fabre

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Philip Wylie

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Staughton Lynd

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Frederick Soddy

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne