Top 100 Education Ignorance Quotes
#1. We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.
Joycelyn Elders
#2. As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it ...
Ambrose Bierce
#3. It's an universal law
intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#4. A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
Thomas Paine
#5. Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
Romany Malco
#6. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter Agre
#7. Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain
#8. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
#10. Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
Jonathan Hennessey
#11. You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Thomas Jefferson
#13. My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?
James Weldon Johnson
#14. The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
Holly Lisle
#16. Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
Alice Walker
#17. Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
Gregory Benford
#19. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
Pearl S. Buck
#20. Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Cesar Nascimento
#21. There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.
Henry Ford
#22. A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
#23. Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
Thomas Sowell
#24. But even if there were no threat, I believe that I must get an education to strengthen myself for the fight I will surely have against ignorance and terrorism.
Malala Yousafzai
#25. Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.
Eric Halvorsen
#26. Society is shaped by ignorance and enlightened by education.
Ben Tolosa
#27. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
#29. There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.
Richard Mitchell
#30. There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
Linda Leaming
#31. Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.
Malala Yousafzai
#32. One of the greatest product of a meaningful education is the intellectual curiosity that leads men and women to continued learning and makes them eager to learn as the experience of life reveals areas of ignorance.
M.A. Khan
#33. Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
Richard Dawkins
#34. The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
#35. He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Benjamin Franklin
#36. Racism is nothing more than ignorance, we are in the dessert together at one time in our lives, we got segregated by peoples beliefs of what was true of what we have to have and don't have to have so for me it is all about education.
John Assaraf
#37. If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.
Derek Bok
#38. Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Iain Pears
#39. Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.
J.R. Rim
#40. To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
Timothy Noah
#41. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
Abhijit Naskar
#42. The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance
Simon Boylan
#43. Know who you are, know your mission and educate yourself in your mission field
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
Osamu Tezuka
#45. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
#46. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William Curtis
#47. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood
#48. To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
#50. With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#51. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#52. America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
David McCullough
#53. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Noam Chomsky
#55. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.
James Marcus Bach
#56. Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
Carl Sagan
#57. I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.
Richard Dawkins
#58. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#59. Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
Frederik Willem De Klerk
#60. Our education serves three purposes. First, we must learn what others think we must know. Second, we cannot profess anything that is not widely accepted. Third, we must learn to hide our own ignorance and never speak about it in public.
D.A. Blankinship
#61. I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.
Giles Duley
#62. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
Eric Hoffer
#64. Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater
Rania Al-Abdullah
#65. Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.
K. G. Johnson
#67. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Pauline Phillips
#69. Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#71. The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.
Khem Veasna
#72. Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
Jimmy Buffett
#74. We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
D.H. Lawrence
#75. Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.
Kathy McClary
#76. I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.
Ani DiFranco
#77. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
David McCullough
#80. A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.
K.A. Brill
#82. The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
#83. Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.
Galina Nelson
#84. The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
Lawrence M. Krauss
#85. Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.
Sai Baba
#86. My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!
Madonna Ciccone
#87. There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.
Muhammadu Buhari
#88. There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.
Kathleen Patel
#90. Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance. Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.
Yuval Noah Harari
#91. What's happening outside church walls is happening inside church walls. It is all part of the human experience. Ignorance and lack of education about sex, sexual orientation, gender identities, and human sexuality in general have led to harmful assumptions and poor pastoral counsel.
Kathy Baldock
#92. If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Thomas Jefferson
#93. The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.
Christopher Hitchens
#94. Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.
Malala Yousafzai
#95. Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.
Erich Fromm
#96. At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.
Carl Jung
#97. The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.
Lewis Thomas
#98. Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting. by Primo Levi in Drowned
Primo Levi
#99. Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
Louis L'Amour
#100. Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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