Ignorance Quotes

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt)
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. View quote
Plato
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. View quote
Socrates
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star. View quote
Confucius
Fear is just another word for ignorance. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. View quote
Confucius
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. View quote
Richard Bach
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George Bernard Shaw)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. View quote
Socrates
Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. View quote
George Orwell
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. View quote
James Madison
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. View quote
Saul Bellow
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. (Henry Adams)
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. View quote
John Rawls
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
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