“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