ignorance quotes

• The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. (John F. Kennedy) [knowledge/ignorance]
• The common curse of mankind, -- folly and ignorance. (William Shakespeare) [mankind/ignorance]
• There is no darkness but ignorance. (William Shakespeare) [darkness/ignorance]
• "It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. (Elizabeth Taylor) [bad/people/ignorance]
• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ( Socrates) [knowledge/evil/ignorance]
• In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. (Theodore Dreiser) [order/wisdom/ignorance]
• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. (Joseph Addison) [ignorance/mankind]
• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. (Maya Angelou) [ignorance/think]
• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. (Jeremy Bentham) [ignorance/right]
• Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. (Robert Browning) [ignorance/sin]
• Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance. (Samuel Butler) [science/ignorance/ignorance]
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle) [collectivism/wisdom/ignorance]
• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. (Winston Churchill) [truth/attack/ignorance/start]
• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. ( Confucius) [ignorance/night/mind/night]
• The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ( Confucius) [essence/knowledge/ignorance]
• The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time! (Charles Dickens) [day/land/ignorance/english]
• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. (Benjamin Disraeli) [ignorance]
• The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. (Benjamin Disraeli) [magic/love/ignorance/start]
• A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere. (Emile Durkheim) [mind//ignorance/being]
• Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. (Albert Einstein) [education/ignorance]
• Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. (George Eliot) [ignorance/evil/think]
• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. (George Eliot) [mind/facts/ignorance]
• The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. (George Eliot) [ignorance]
• Fear always springs from ignorance. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [fear/ignorance]
• Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. (Robert Emmet) [epitaph/ignorance/rest/]
• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Anatole France) [price/ignorance]
• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. (Benjamin Franklin) [ignorance]
• Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [more/ignorance/action]
• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. (William Hazlitt) [ignorance/knowledge/find/conversation]
• Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt) [child/ignorance]
• Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. () [ignorance]

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