Ignorance Quotes

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Euripides

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

Daniel J Boorstin

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Robert Benchley

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Paul Assange

Whatever the progress of human knowledge, there will always be room for ignorance, hence for chance and probability.

Flix douard Justin mile Borel

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

Jafar ibn Muhammad as-S

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.

Ray Douglas Bradbury
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