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Quotes about Ignorance


Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

John Dryden

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

John Dryden

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

James Anthony Froude

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Oliver Goldsmith

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

Thomas Hood

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

John Locke

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Will Graffiti

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Bennett Cerf

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

Daniel J Boorstin

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Daniel J Socrates

. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Anthony J D'Angelo

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Anatole Goethe

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