Character Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

— Andy Stanley

“Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...”

— Gabriel Thy

“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 is not a virtue, nor empty thoughts a pot of gold.”

— Patrick Brigham

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

— Susan Ertz

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

— Henry Ford

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

— Gilbert Highet

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is…

— H. L. Mencken

“Too much innocence can also refer to ignorance. Therefore, mankind is innocent.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.”

— Diane Medved

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

— Amos Bronson Alcott