Top 32 Ignorance Is Dangerous Quotes
#1. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Criss Jami
#2. Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris
#3. The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#4. He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
Dan Simmons
#5. Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.
Pope Gregory I
#6. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
Jean De La Fontaine
#7. Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
#8. Gareth once told me that ignorance was bliss and I'd responded that ignorance was dangerous. We were both right. But which is better?
Demitria Lunetta
#9. I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.
Flannery O'Connor
#10. An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#11. I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.
Bill Maher
#12. The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
Edmund Wilson
#14. Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. All mankind lives in a state of terrible ignorance. In the opinion of food addicts, the consumption of cooked food is something quite natural, while nourishment by the laws of nature is an experiment, and a dangerous experiment at that.
Arshavir Ter Hovannessian
#16. Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
Thomas Sowell
#17. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
Stephen R. Prothero
#18. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?
CrimethInc.
#19. 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
#20. quotation from Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.' I would suggest to Dr. Chauncy that in combination, the two qualities are even more alarming.
Douglas Preston
#21. Nobody is going to be muddle-headed enough to confuse ignorance with innocence now - it's too important. Nor is ignorance going to be cute or funny anymore. It is going to be dangerous, very dangerous.
John Wyndham
#22. Sometimes it is good and sometimes
it is dangerous like the ignorance
of particulars, but our words are clear
and our movements give off light.
Robert Hass
#23. There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.
Steven Magee
#24. It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell Lowell
#25. It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Helen Keller
#26. I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
Charles Francis Richter
#27. Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.
J.K. Rowling
#28. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Pauline Phillips
#29. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.
Masha Du Toit
#31. Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.
Ted Nugent
#32. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.
Tariq Ramadan