Quotes

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-Derek Bok

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
-Bhagavad Gita

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

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
-Frank Dane

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
-Anthony J Dangelo

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
-Goethe

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
-Samuel Butler

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

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
-Clarence Darrow

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
-Euripides

Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
-Bennett Cerf

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
-Ernest Bevin

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-Rita Mae Brown

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

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

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
-James Anthony Froude

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
-Confucius

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-Derek Bok

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
-Adlai Stevenson

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
-Brian Hwang

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
-Galileo

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
-Robert Browning

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
-Wayne Dyer

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-Hazlitt

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
-James Beattie

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

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
-Eric Hoffer

Ignorance never settles a question.
-Benjamin Disraeli

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
-Horace Mann

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

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows.
-Robert Burton

The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.
-Ming Lum Paou Keen

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
-Homer

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
-Jean de la Fontaine