Ignorance Quotes

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

Charles Darwin

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James Baldwin

"Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science."

James Clerk Maxwell

“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

“Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.”

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

“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.”

"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him."

John Selden

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"The ignorant man is always afraid of change."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."