The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Votes: 4
Daniel J. BoorstinIgnorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free. Votes: 3
Jonathan HennesseyDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Votes: 2
H. L. MenckenIt takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Votes: 2
Thomas SowellThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinTrue friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Votes: 2
Henry David ThoreauNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Votes: 2
Galileo GalileiAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Votes: 2
Mark TwainIgnorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareThe highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. Votes: 2
Wayne DyerA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Votes: 2
Saul BellowPrejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonNothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts. Votes: 0
Friedrich August von HayekNot ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadFreedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollFolly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonWe rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
Julien Offray de La MettrieIgnorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxTyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
James Russell LowellA man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauSee what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.
Charles Webster HawthorneIgnorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.
Robert Green IngersollI'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.
Alison Hawthorne DemingScience intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
Charles LindberghIn the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
Howard G. HendricksThe only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Napoleon BonapartePerhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
Barbara KingsolverWonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
Michel de MontaigneOnce a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.
Robert KiyosakiThe whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
Charles Caleb ColtonTalk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxWhat clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!
Israel ZangwillObedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
Napoleon BonaparteIgnorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.
Samuel JohnsonMuch of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
Abraham ColesThere's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.
John Shelby SpongNot knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
Laurell K. HamiltonA common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
Leon Battista AlbertiThe inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green IngersollThe next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.
Robert KiyosakiA whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.
Herbert Beerbohm TreeThe full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
John Desmond BernalKids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
Kelley ArmstrongThe union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
B.K.S. IyengarThe reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Frank A. ClarkShe feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.
Joseph ConradI seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
Marcus AureliusThrough ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
Marcus Tullius Cicerodead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!
Sister SouljahThe more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Amos Bronson AlcottAn ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
Hendrik Willem van LoonEducation is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.
Malala YousafzaiIt is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
Marcus AureliusReligious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
Thomas JeffersonIn friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.
William ShakespeareIndulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaThe visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.
Carroll SmithHow the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cyprian EkwensiIgnorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
Dean KoontzBy identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.
Desiderius ErasmusTaste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
Frank Lloyd WrightIn his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
Gautama BuddhaThe false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovIf ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.
Jim HightowerHis ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
Mark TwainThis is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
Molly IvinsIgnorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
Naomi JuddThe Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness
Simon BolivarIgnorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.
Sylvia EarleHelp and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
Tom HanksGod has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
Victor HugoIgnorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
Will RogersTrue modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
Augustus William HareHistory is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
Helen KellerPeace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
Indira GandhiThe privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
John FowlesInexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Mercedes LackeyThere is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
Ramana MaharshiWe keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren WeaverBlind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
Alfred Lord TennysonYes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
Andy StanleyIgnorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
B.K.S. IyengarSince fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
Christine Comaford-LynchC++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.
Erik NaggumThe reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.
Glenn BeckI would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Mark TwainNo human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.
Maya AngelouThe only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
Napoleon BonaparteThe country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.
Rush LimbaughDeath falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Seneca the YoungerTo admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.
Tom SpanbauerIgnorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
Brian TracyOur ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.
Edgar MitchellThe trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
Josh BillingsI am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.
Kedar JoshiAn atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
Laurence SterneIgnorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
Wes FeslerIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
AverroesLibraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.
Francis KeppelWe have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
Lev GrossmanQuantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
Rene ThomI want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell SimmonsHe said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
SocratesOn entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
Horace MannThough the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
John LockePassionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
Napoleon BonaparteMankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.
Wes FeslerIgnorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxKnowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosityâeven if it had killed the catâis king.
Kim HarrisonIgnorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
Alice WalkerIgnorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
Ann RadcliffeDarkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
Charles SpurgeonWe must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
Coretta Scott KingAttachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment
Goswami KriyanandaIt is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell LowellThe past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
Jared DiamondCertainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.
Kedar JoshiWhatâs looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
Lierre KeithDo not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Mehmet Murat ildanIgnorance is not bliss â it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
Philip WylieHe that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
Samuel JohnsonIt is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
Alfred P. SloanNovelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.
Anthony MaraisTo be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.
David O. McKayThe first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
G. I. GurdjieffWe cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.
Joseph Smith, Jr.Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
PlatoThe reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance
Richard HookerThe question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Soren KierkegaardConfident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
Thom S. RainerMay I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
Gautama BuddhaThe darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
George SartonStudy and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.
Michael LewisWho but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
Adi ShankaraLearn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
Bayard TaylorError, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
Charles Caleb ColtonScience literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
Neil deGrasse TysonThe curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself
SophoclesIn Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions. Votes: 2 Sharon Salzberg
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more... Votes: 1 Desiderius Erasmus
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble. Votes: 3 John Steinbeck
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something. Votes: 1 Sarah McLachlan
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance. Votes: 1 Hideki Tojo
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. Votes: 1 Sydney J. Harris
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. Votes: 1 Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. Votes: 3 Luis Gutierrez
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? Votes: 2 Stephen Fry
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Votes: 2 Kofi Annan
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Votes: 4 Thomas Gray
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. Votes: 2 Jim Rohn
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees. Votes: 3 Thomas Sowell
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant. Votes: 1 David Icke
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. Votes: 3 Paul Harris
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. Votes: 3 Barney Frank
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. Votes: 7 Frederick Soddy
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed. Votes: 4 Benjamin Robbins Curtis