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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek
There is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
Hideki Tojo
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
Francois Rabelais
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
Diogenes
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
George Santayana
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Bodhidharma
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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.
Richard Bach
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
Jimmy Buffett
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Hippocrates
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi
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
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
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.
Charles Darwin
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.
Frederick Douglass
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Anna Quindlen
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
Wallace Stevens
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Mary Daly
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Sting
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
