Ignorance Quotes

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. (Socrates)
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. View quote
Richard Bach
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. View quote
Plato
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. View quote
Socrates
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. View quote
George Orwell
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. View quote
James Madison
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle)
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. View quote
Saul Bellow
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Fear is just another word for ignorance. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. View quote
Henry Adams
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. View quote
John Rawls
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. (Isaiah Berlin)
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. View quote
Frederick Douglass
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. View quote
George Orwell