Ignorance Quotes

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Death, Happy

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

Good, Knowledge, Evil

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

Knowledge, Down, Hour

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

Innocence, Charms

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

Beginning, Whether, Persons

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt

Child, Prejudice

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Margaret Sanger

Children, Deep, Become

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray

Wise, Bliss, Folly

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Time, Knowledge, Science

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper

Knowledge, While, Infinite

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates

Knowledge, Science, Father

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma

Wisdom, Engaging

There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Belief, Miracles, Grows

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett

Knowledge, Bad, Dangerous

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Ignorant, Malady

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne

Rest, Head, Pillow

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France

Happy, Person, Except

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France

Life, Water, Necessary

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Happy, Evil, Else

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus

Evening, Wine, Soon

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Kin Hubbard

Foolish, Bliss, Neighbor

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett

Care, Apathy, Hey

Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Truth, Evil, Knows

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. Glasow

Knowledge, Harder, Conceal

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

Knowledge, Increase, Horizon

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West

Two, Young, Between

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