“Whoever said ignorance is bliss has never known the joy of enlightenment.” — Denise Camille Frye Copy Share Image
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. — Plato Copy Share Image
“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is an ugly duckling; enlightenment is a magnificent swan.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ignorance weakens you, understanding shelters you, intelligence strengthens you, but wisdom makes you invincible.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble with the world we live in, Dana. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance,… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
“Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“When we begin to shine, the darkness of ignorance will disappear from our society.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.” — Huang Po Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a luxury of life…Then you find out The Tooth fairy isn't real, or Santa Claus, or... Most of what we… — Bobby Ray Copy Share Image
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My father, a good man, told me, 'Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.' — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
