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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance. — David Gross

Ignorance is the mother of presumption — Marie De Gournay

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. — Thomas Fuller

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. — Louis L'Amour

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. — George MacDonald Fraser

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses. — Galina Nelson

Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you. — Jeffrey Fry

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. — John Archibald Wheeler

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. — Ken Follett

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. — Paul Harris

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance — Elizabeth Goudge

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. — Joy Page

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises. — Orrin Woodward

... most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. — Yvon Chouinard

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator. — Ibn Rajab

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance. — S.J. Kincaid

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue. — Andy Stanley

The darkest night is ignorance. — Gautama Buddha

Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness . — Gaurav Rao

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death. — Suzy Kassem

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. — Samuel Johnson

The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him. — Rush Limbaugh

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. — Walker Percy

Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away. — Dada Bhagwan

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How — Matthieu Ricard

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance — Plato

Is it ignorance if you don't care to know it?" "Yes. That is almost the definition of ignorance, actually. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make — Loknath

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance — Albert Einstein

The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara. — Frederick Lenz

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God". — Jerry A. Coyne

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance. — Mark Crispin Miller

To think that one way is the one and only truth is the pinnacle of ignorance. — Laren Grey Umphlett

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god. — Guy P. Harrison

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this? — Leo Tolstoy

There does not exist any religious system, or supernatural extravagance, which is not founded on an ignorance of the laws of nature. — Marquis De Condorcet

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature. — George Dana Boardman Pepper

Ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins! — Mark Twain

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. — Aleister Crowley

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. — David Rockefeller

We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness. — Giacomo Leopardi

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement. — Benjamin Carson

...ignorance is a curse lying in wait for the younger generation, for those who forgot to ask. — Hannah Mary Rothschild

Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing. — Auliq Ice

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. — Francois Rabelais

Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance! — Dr Steven Bottomley

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique. — Piero Scaruffi

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It's not the end of the world. — Diane Samuels

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. — Arthur Helps

The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room, — Terry Pratchett

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — Sylvia Earle

Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance. — Catherine Jones Payne

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all. — Ramana Maharshi

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams

Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance. — Laozi

The deeper we dig into our field the more we know about its details — Sunday Adelaja

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. — Marina Lewycka

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force". — John B. S. Haldane

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance. — Socrates

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. — Plato

When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm. — Otis Webb Brawley

We never accept the unaccepted, that which makes us uncomfortable. We love to ignore things till they can no longer be ignored. — Sandeep Sharma

[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance. — Sandor Marai

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. — Michel De Montaigne

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. — Khaled Hosseini

As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger — Dennis McKenna

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. — Aung San Suu Kyi

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. — Sterling W. Sill

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow. — Anthony Liccione

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand. — Lionel Suggs

Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. — William Gaddis

a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears — Hunter S. Thompson

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. — Mark Twain

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way. — John C. Maxwell

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance. — Lama Surya Das

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive. — Jaggi Vasudev

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! — Robbie Thomas

If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator — Josh Stern

Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life. — Sunday Adelaja

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul — Plato