Ignorance Quotes

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Emile Durkheim

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance

Lord Byron

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Richard Feynman

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

What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

Henry Ford

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

Education is...Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

Kenneth G. Johnson

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance

Harold Macmillan

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Thomas Jefferson
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