Top 100 Ignorance Quotes And Sayings

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – very well said by Martin Luther King, Jr. Here We’ve compiled a list of top 100  quotes and sayings about ignorance.


Popular Ignorance Quotes


“A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” – Charles Kettering


“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.


“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain


“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell


“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.” – Socrates


“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.” – Robert Quillen


“Ignorance is the mother of all evils.” – Francois Rabelais


“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” – Emma Goldman


“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” – Wayne Dyer


“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” – Benjamin Franklin


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


“Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” – Aldous Huxley


“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.” – Confucius


“Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.” – Wes Fessler


“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.” – Cicero


“The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.” – Max Heindel


“Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.” – James Anthony Froude


“Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.” – Richard Dawkins


“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.” – Horace Mann


“Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.” – Oscar Wilde

 


“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” – Dalai Lama


“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.” – Sting


“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.” – Napoleon Bonaparte


“Ignorance never settles a question.” – Benjamin Disraeli


“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” – Thomas Jefferson


“Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.” – Publilius Syrus


“Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.” – David Gross


“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.” – George Chapman


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


“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” – John F. Kennedy


“Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.” – Frank Dane


“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.” – Herodotus


“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.” – Robert Staughton Lynd


“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” – Plato


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


“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.” – Arthur Conan Doyle


“In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.” – Theodore Dreiser


“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.” – Terry Pratchett


“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Jeff Rich


“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” – William Shakespeare


“There is no slavery but ignorance.” – Robert Green Ingersoll


“One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset.” – Wallace Stevens


“Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems.” – Naomi Judd


“To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.” – Ann Plato


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


“Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.” – Euripides


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


“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” – Robert Browning


“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.” – James F. Cooper


“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.” – Arnold H. Glasow


“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.” – William Gaddis


“Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.” – David Brock


“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.” – William Osler


“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.” – Karl Popper


“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson


“There is no sin but ignorance.” – Christopher Marlowe


“It’s indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.” – Diego Luna


“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.” – William Shakespeare


“Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.” – Isaac Watts


“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.” – Addison Mizner


“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin


“There is no darkness but ignorance.” – William Shakespeare


“If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.” – Leo Buscaglia


“It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.” – Mignon McLaughlin


“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” – George Bernard Shaw


“Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.” – Louis D. Brandeis


“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin


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


“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” – Enrico Fermi


“Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the self and the non-self.” – Patanjali


“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” – Plato


“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” – Francis of Assisi


“Ignorance is a menace to peace.” – Paul Harris


“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” – Isaac Asimov


“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.” – Hunter S. Thompson


“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.” – Jean Toomer


“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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


“Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.” – Bill Richardson


“His ignorance is encyclopedic.” – Abba Eban


“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.” – Molly Ivins


“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.” – John Tillotson


“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” – Winston Churchill


“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.” – Samuel Butler


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


“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” – George Bernard Shaw


“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.” – Will Rogers


“Racism springs from ignorance.” – Mario Balotelli


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


“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” – H. L. Mencken

 


“Ignorance is bliss, or so we’re told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.” – Gayle Lynds


“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” – John F. Kennedy


“Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.” – Thucydides


“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” – Charles Darwin


“Ignorance is always afraid of change.” – Jawaharlal Nehru


“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.” – Victor Cousin


“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.” – Arnold H. Glasow


“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Daniel J. Boorstin


“A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.” – Charles B. Rangel