The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Joseph Lewis

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
Neal Stephenson

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
William McKinley

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Kenneth Clark

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Henry Hazlitt

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward Beecher

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Cesare Lombroso

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Desiderius Erasmus

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
Tommy Armour

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
John Jakes

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran