Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham

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

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Sting

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine

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

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin

His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen

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

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi