Strike the ignorant with the hammer of knowledge, wherever…

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

— Mark Twain

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

— Philip Wylie

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.”

— Hakim Sanai

You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live!

— Anonymous

Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

— Galileo Galilei

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A…

— James Madison

“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s…

— Vashti Quiroz-Vega

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Those who embrace prejudice doom themselves to live in ignorance.”

— John P Lintz Sr

“You are a lawmaker in your own right.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

— Derek R. Audette