Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. (Plato)
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. View quote
William Hazlitt
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. View quote
Richard Feynman
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. View quote
Terry Pratchett
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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. View quote
Confucius
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. View quote
Charles Darwin
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
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
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. (Thomas Carlyle)
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. View quote
Henry Adams
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. View quote
John Rawls
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