Quotes on ignorance

“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”

Becca Fitzpatrick

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

Eoin Colfer

“Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.”

Ja A. Jahannes

“I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.”

Kedar Joshi

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”

G.K. Chesterton

“If we remain humble and grounded in nature's wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. (Why step out of nature ?)”

Erik Pevernagie

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

Susan Sontag

“he who will not economize will have to agonize”

Confucius

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

Criss Jami

“originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“all appears to change when we change”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

Phyllis McGinley

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

E.A. Bucchianeri

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will tear itself apart.

J.M. Coetzee

The light of truth dispels the darkness of ignorance.

Abd-Ru-Shin

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Adolf Hitler

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

Words are the light that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

Alice Duer Miller

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Oliver Goldsmith

It must be frustrating for you to not know something, isn’t it?

S.G. Blaise

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

Henry Adams

Self-realization is the process of removing the ignorance of the truth, which creates all the mental and emotional patterns that cause suffering.

Amit Ray

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Marguerite Gardiner

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin