The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

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

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

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin

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

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant