As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Henry David Thoreau
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Samuel Johnson
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Benjamin Tucker
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
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance
Hippocrates
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
Heraclitus
We discover in the gospels, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication
Thomas Jefferson
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
Heraclitus