This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about ignorance.
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Art has no enemy except ignorance.
(unknown author)Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
(unknown author)Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H.L. MenckenDiscussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert QuillenHis ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: A Study in Scarlet
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Neil deGrasse TysonIgnorance is bliss.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de MontaigneIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles DarwinSource: The Descent of Man
Ignorance, if you are a theologian, is something to be washed away by shamelessly making something up.
Christopher HitchensIgnorance, to a scientist, is an itch that begs to be pleasurably scratched.
Christopher HitchensIt is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinSource: The Descent of Man
It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Victorian Short Stories, Vol. 2
Life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.
Steven PinkerNatural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
Richard DawkinsNothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.
Noam ChomskyPoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham GreeneThe greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen HawkingThe only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil’s masterpiece.
Sam HarrisThe trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
Mark TwainTheology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.
Sam HarrisThere are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald RumsfeldWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Thomas GrayYouth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
Aristophanes