Ignorance Quote by Daniel Boorstin

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J Boorstin

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling,…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to…

— Fidel Castro

“Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all…

— Thomas M. Nichols

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode…

— Stephen Batchelor

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“What we have now is but a bare remnant, an age of vast information, but spread thin like a superficial crust passing as knowledge.…

— David Grant Urban

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”4”

— Denise Minger

“I've always been an advocate of knowledge is power, but at the moment I'm favouring ignorance is bliss”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

“every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.”

— Haruki Murakami