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

— Daniel Boorstin

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Willful ignorance is an insult to the collective of human intelligence. Considering the vast amount of knowledge that is easily available, it is unconscionable…

— Al Stefanelli

“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

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

— Wendell Berry

“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

“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

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will…

— John Kramer

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert…

— Charles Darwin

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

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson