Ignorance Quote by Thomas Carlyle

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.

— Thomas Carlyle

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right,…

— Thomas Carlyle

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

— Milan Kundera

“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to…

— Samuel Johnson

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

— Morris Kline

“A man remains knowing as long as he searches for knowledge and continues to study. When he thinks he knows, he has become ignorant.”

— Franz Rosenthal

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates…

— Anonymous

“And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result…

— Adolf Hitler

A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.

— Georg Simmel

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal…

— Albert Einstein