Ignorance

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

A wise man admits his ignorance; an ignorant man admits he's wise.

American proverb

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

bell hooks

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing — well, maybe that's too strong — but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Anthony Hopkins

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Willie Nelson

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Henry Rollins

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

Winston Churchill

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken