Ignorance Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

— Henry David Thoreau

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

— Henry David Thoreau

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

— Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

“What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of…

— Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously…

— Henry David Thoreau

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What we will call beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boated so-called knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on…

— Henry David Thoreau

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of…

— Henry David Thoreau

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau