Ignorance Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Error is worse than ignorance.

— Philip James Bailey

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

— Thomas Jefferson

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

— Richard Whately

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

— Josh Billings

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

— Leon Battista Alberti

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth…

— Philip James Bailey

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals…

— James Smithson

The extent of a man's ignorance is not measured in what he does not know, but in what he refuses to learn.

— Anonymous

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

— Norm MacDonald