IGNORANCE QUOTES
quotations about ignorance
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
ISAAC ASIMOV
"A Cult of Ignorance", Newsweek, Jan. 21, Newsweek, Jan. 21, 1980
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
When did ignorance become a point of view?
SCOTT ADAMS
Stick to Drawing Comics
The darkest night is ignorance.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
A Testament of Hope
O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love's Labour's Lost
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Dance of Death
Ignorance is no argument.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata et in quinque parses distincta
Living is easy with eyes closed,
misunderstanding all you see.
JOHN LENNON
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
JESUS
Luke 23:34
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN
The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
There is a preschool ignorance that precedes knowledge and a postgraduate ignorance that follows it.
MONTAIGNE
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.
HENRY FORD
Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
Full Employment in a Free Society
Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS
The Will Rogers Book
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
ROBERT BROWNING
The Inn Album