Ignorance Quotes

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

Knowledge, Down, Hour

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

Beginning, Whether, Persons

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

Society, Violent, Element

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

Innocence, Charms

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Study, Discover

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

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

Wise, Bliss, Folly

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

Knowledge, While, Infinite

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt

Child, Prejudice

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

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

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Karl A. Menninger

Fear, Anger, Hate

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

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

Knowledge, Science, Father

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

Rest, Head, Pillow

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

Truth, Evil, Knows

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

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

Care, Apathy, Hey

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

Foolish, Bliss, Neighbor

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

Knowledge, Harder, Conceal

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
Manmohan Singh

Time, Short, Problems

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

Ignorant, Malady

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

Knowledge, Increase, Horizon

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

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering

Person, Anywhere, Amount

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson

Free, Salvation, Weapon

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