Ignorance

• Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. -Bertrand Russell

• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo

• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. -Kahlil Gibran

• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. -Martin Luther King Jr.

• There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Goethe

• The multitude of books is making us ignorant. -Voltaire

• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Derek Bok

• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. -Thomas Carlyle

• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. -Mignon McLaughlin

• Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. -Robert Quillen

• Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. -Irene Peter

• Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish. -Laurence Peter

• Ignorance is the mother of fear. -Harry Homes

• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -Titus Livius

• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. -Alfred North Whitehead

• Ignorance is the mother of all evils. -Michel de Montaigne

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

• Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. -Frank Zappa

• You laugh at us because we're different. We laugh at you because you're all the same. -John Davis

• If the Society told me that this book is black instead of green, I would say, "Y'know, I could have sworn that it was green, but if the Society says it's black, then it's black!" -Bart Thomson, Jehovah's Witness, District Overseer