Ignorance Sayings and Quotes
They say ignorance is bliss, but is it really? While not knowing or being unaware can be enjoyable for a time, it could prove to be harmful. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful ignorance quotes, proverbs, and sayings.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never heard of.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
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Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
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The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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To be concious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step toward knowledge.
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
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The little I know, I own to ignorance.
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By ignorance the truth is known.
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It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can.
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Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.
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Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
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Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.
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Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity.
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Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
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Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.
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Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
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Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.
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To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
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Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.
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The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Ignorance is right!
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You can still be sincere and still be stupid.
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The mist of ignorance, esteems untrue. Rejecting whatsoever is a wonder.
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It is when within the darkness of ignorance when you shout do you shine.
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In guiltless ignorance, in ignorant guilt.
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For ignorance, its growth and its protection.
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Through ignorance, all troubles did surmount.
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Pain and ignorance lead to great joy and knowledge because the Supreme Being has created nothing vain under the sun.
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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Ignorance is bliss.
