Ignorance Quotes

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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. — Saadi
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. — St. Jerome
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. — Samuel Johnson
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. — John Dryden
All our ignorance brings us closer to death. — George Eliot
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. — Oliver Goldsmith
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. — William Safire
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. — Edward Albert
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. — Charles Bradlaugh
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better. — Ron Reagan
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. — John Lyly
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive… — John Masefield
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance. — William Rotsler
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty.… — Robert Hugh Benson
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. — G I Gurdjieff
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population. — John Sculley
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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