Characteristics Quote by Jane Smiley

Ignorance is when you don't know something and someone finds out

— Anonymous

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want…

— Samuel Johnson

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the…

— Patanjali

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be…

— Jose Rizal

The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination…

— Dainin Katagiri

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

— Mark Twain

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness…

— Karl Popper

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is…

— Thomas Paine

“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

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

— Leo Tolstoy