Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato

Evil, Stem, Root

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

Peace, Strength, War

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education, Discovery

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

Nature, America, Confusion

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

Power, Science, Technology

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine

Reason, Whatever, Dictated

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

Good, Evil, May

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard

Knowledge, Opinions, Content

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard

Home, America, Threaten

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Wisdom, Skill

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

Knowledge, Science, Confidence

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

Learning, Greatest, Evil

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

America, Few, Educated

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

Change, Time, Fear

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge, Opinion, Between

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers

Read, Papers, Alibi

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

End, Belief, Injustice

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

Wisdom, Democracy, Individual

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

Knowledge, Human, Thought

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers

Started, Knows, Bounds

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett

Pretty, Results, Leverage

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

Envy, Belief, Lack

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

Great, Learning, Bad

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler

Pride, Arrogance, Vanity

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Action, Terrible

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Eyes, Open, Wretched

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

Knowledge, Philosophy, Sense

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 of Avila

Peace, Real, May

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi

Fear, Wisdom, Nor

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