Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson