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

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary Wortley

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.
Mark Crispin Miller

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

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

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

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

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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

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

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

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Edward Irving

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Edward F. Halifax