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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Paley, William

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Wilde, Oscar

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Tillotson

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

Proverb, American

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.

Hwang, Brian

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Franklin, Benjamin

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Twain, Mark

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Proverb, Arabian

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Peter, Irene

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 a butterfly.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

Jesenska, Milena

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Dane, Frank

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Hazlitt, William

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

Jefferson, Thomas

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Mann, Horace

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Confucius

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Huxley, Aldous

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Franklin, Benjamin

Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

Mendelson, Harry

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Proverb, Haitian

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Hoffer, Eric

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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