Ignorance quotes

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Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

- William Gaddis

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

- George Kimble

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

- Wayne Dyer

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

- Crystal Eastman

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

- Isaac Watts

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

- Victor Hugo

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

- Jeremy Taylor

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

- Anatole France

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

- Sting

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

- James F. Cooper

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

- Guru Nanak

There is no sin but ignorance.

- Christopher Marlowe

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

- Victor Cousin

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

- Ambrose Bierce

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

- Leonardo da Vinci

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

- William Osler

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

- Michel de Montaigne

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

- William John Wills

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

- William Ellery Channing