Ignorance Quotes - page 3

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. (John Archibald Wheeler)
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. View quote
Robert Browning
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. View quote
Jean Henri Fabre
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. View quote
William Beveridge
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. View quote
Albert Camus
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. View quote
Richard Feynman
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. View quote
Richard Feynman
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. (Emiliano Zapata)
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. View quote
Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. View quote
Anatole France
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Ignorance is the parent of fear. View quote
Herman Melville
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. View quote
Louis Brandeis
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Jeremy Bentham)
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. View quote
George Bancroft
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli