Ignorance Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be…

— Jonathan Swift

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully…

— Epictetus

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes by which…

— Fanny Kemble

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither…

— Plato

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing…

— Isaac Asimov

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be…

— Louis de Bernieres

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that…

— H. L. Mencken

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.”

— Zack W. Van