Quotes on “ignorance”

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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.

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

It has become almost a cliché 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.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.