Ignorance Quotes by Victor Hugo

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

— Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

— Victor Hugo

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

— Victor Hugo

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

— Victor Hugo

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

— Victor Hugo

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not…

— Victor Hugo

“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if…

— Victor Hugo

Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness…

— Victor Hugo

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the…

— Victor Hugo

“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or…

— Victor Hugo

“I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which…

— Victor Hugo

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent…

— Victor Hugo

Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,…

— Victor Hugo

“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the…

— Victor Hugo

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature…

— Victor Hugo