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Quotes on Ignorance

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Author: Michel de Montaigne

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
Author: Democritus

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
Author: Crates

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Author: Albert Einstein

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times
Author: Gustave Flaubert

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
Author: Unknown

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Author: Isaac Asimov

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Author: Henry David Thoreau

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.
Author: Joseph Smith

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
Author: Frederic Bastiat

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Author: Livy

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?
Author: Unknown

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Author: Warren Weaver

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Author: Charles F. Kettering

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Author: Norman Juster

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of the day? So, O man! as you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Author: Ramakrishna

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Author: Anonymous

 

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