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.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.Charles Darwin
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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.Ralph B. Perry
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.Jawaharlal Nehru
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To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.Ann Plato
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.Plato
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If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.Victor Cousin
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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.Napoleon Bonaparte
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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.Publilius Syrus
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.Cicero
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.Dalai Lama
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.Wayne Dyer
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.Horace Mann
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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.Thomas Jefferson
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Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.Aldous Huxley
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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
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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.Frank Dane
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Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.Robert Browning
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.Confucius
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Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.Wes Fessler
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.Elbert Hubbard
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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.James Anthony Froude
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The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.Samuel Butler
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
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Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.Will Rogers
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To be concious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step toward knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.Mark Twain
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The little I know, I own to ignorance.Sacha Guity
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By ignorance the truth is known.Heinrich Suso
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It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life.Wallace Stevens
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.Socrates
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.Emma Goldman
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.Benjamin Franklin
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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.Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can.Victor Hugo
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Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.Ira N. Barin
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Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?Lionel Suggs
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Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.Andrew Levkoff
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Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity.Victoria Schwab
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Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great. Stephen Fry
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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.Anthony Marais
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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. Israelmore Ayivor
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Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.Kristen Ashley
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.James Clerk Maxwell
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Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.Laura Knight-Jadczyk
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To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.Kyle Schmalenberg
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.Nenia Campbell
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The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.Leah Hager Cohen
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.Saul Bellow
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.Aldous Huxley
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.Alfred North Whitehead
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance. A. Bronson Alcott
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.Anatole France
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Ignorance is right! Christopher Andrea
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You can still be sincere and still be stupid.Charles F. Kettering
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The mist of ignorance, esteems untrue. Rejecting whatsoever is a wonder.Ludovico Ariosto
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It is when within the darkness of ignorance when you shout do you shine.William Andrews
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In guiltless ignorance, in ignorant guilt.Stephen Crane
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For ignorance, its growth and its protection.Ezra Pound
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Through ignorance, all troubles did surmount.Anne Bradstreet
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Pain and ignorance lead to great joy and knowledge because the Supreme Being has created nothing vain under the sun.Khalil Gibran
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.Edward Estlin Cummings
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