quotations about ignorance
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
DEAN KOONTZ
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
ARABIC PROVERB
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Ignorance is never known to be ignorance till it be matched with knowledge.
ANONYMOUS
Politeuphuia, Wits common-wealth
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
"The Call of Cthulhu"
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
ISAAC ASIMOV
The Planet that Wasn't
Ignorance is blinding. We fall in love with what we believe, and become resistant to change, to seeing a different viewpoint, to the point of not even acknowledging that there may even be another valid viewpoint. When that happens, we're blind -- blind to ourselves, to others, to what matters.
JEANNETTE ANGELL
"A talk with author Jeannette Angell: From college lecturer to callgirl and back", Souixland, Oct. 8, Souixland, Oct. 8, 2004
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
It has long been the policy of the devil to keep the masses of the world in ignorance.
SIMPSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The common curse of mankind -- folly and ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
The ignorant are not better judges of knowledge, than cowards of bravery or the blind of colors.
K. L. IMMERMANN
attributed, Day's Collacon
The unprepared will eventually be destroyed; ignorance is no hiding place.
TONY BALLANTYNE
Recursion
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Sybil: Or, The Two Nations
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Freedom from Fear
Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Hard-Up Yeoman", Hand-Made Fables
Ignorance and Innocence are twins in the same cradle. Ignorance is never reared, and her death is either the death of Innocence also, or her immortality.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
T. S. ELIOT
The Rock