A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

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