Top 100 Knowledge Ignorance Quotes
#1. Philosophy demands knowledge, ignorance demands happiness, love demands both.
Bruce Crown
#2. Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.
Robert Kiyosaki
#4. Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
Rosemary Mahoney
#5. Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship.
Dada Bhagwan
#6. For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
Robert Browning
#7. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
#8. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#9. Wisdom is a weapon, knowledge is the armor, and ignorance the enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
John Fowles
#11. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
#12. To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
Laozi
#13. The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.
Pierre Berton
#14. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
Ruth Ozeki
#15. It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions.
R. Scott Bakker
#16. We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.
Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
#17. Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy
#18. It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor
#19. People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
Hippocrates
#20. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
Charles Sumner
#21. How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?
Rosamond Lehmann
#22. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?
Anonymous
#23. Light in Greek is the same thing as knowledge which is the opposite of ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#25. 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
#26. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.
Jean Lescure
#27. During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.
Colin Dexter
#28. The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#29. A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#30. Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
Jane Rule
#31. Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
Roberto Llamas
#32. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
William Hazlitt
#33. Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
Christine De Pizan
#34. It's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many different sides to everybodys personality and there's just different colours to a personality.
Kelly Clarkson
#35. If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
Thomas Watson
#36. Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.
Stuart Wilde
#37. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
#38. Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
#40. It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
Frank Herbert
#41. To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
Benjamin Franklin
#43. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.
Abhijit Naskar
#44. Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
Marshall McLuhan
#46. Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
#47. Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.
J.R. Rim
#48. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
#49. And the reason for this ignorance is that a knowledge of the role these people played - and play - in American life would reveal more about America to Americans than Americans wish to know. The
James Baldwin
#50. The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#51. I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.
Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
#52. Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.
Masha Du Toit
#54. It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. Glasow
#55. Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.
Isaac Asimov
#56. Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
Ian Hacking
#57. Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.
Lauren Kate
#58. I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it,
Mercedes Lackey
#59. To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#60. Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
A.J. Darkholme
#61. Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
Christine De Pizan
#62. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#63. I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.
Mark Slouka
#64. A little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.
Ruth Downie
#65. Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Horace Mann
#66. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.
Jim Butcher
#67. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
Aleister Crowley
#68. Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
Martha C. Nussbaum
#69. Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
Henry MacKenzie
#70. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#71. We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During
Mark Batterson
#72. It's a shame you prefer to wallow in a mire of ignorance when knowledge floats by within reach," Books said. "Isn't it?
Lindsay Buroker
#73. What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
T. S. Eliot
#75. Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.
Lionel Suggs
#76. Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
Toba Beta
#78. The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light
Ibn Arabi
#79. The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever
Reginald Hill
#80. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew
Michael Bassey Johnson
#81. Of power does Man possess no particle:
Of knowledge-just so much as show that still
It ends in ignorance on every side ...
Robert Browning
#82. In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.
Boethius
#83. This is how you conquer your enemies:
through their ignorance of you,
and through your knowledge of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#85. The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt
#86. An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#87. A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#88. Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#89. And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess to know things of which they are ignorant.
Rene Descartes
#90. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato
#91. Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Rachel Hartman
#93. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
#94. There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns
#95. It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire
#96. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#97. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#98. Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.
Kristen Ashley
#99. Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.
S.J. Kincaid
