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QUOTES including the word: "ignorance"

Will Durant:
  • Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

    • Emma Goldman:
  • The most violent element in society is ignorance.

    • Feuerbach:
  • The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

    • Socrates:
  • There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

    • Durant Will:
  • Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

    • Shakespeare:
  • There is no darkness but ignorance.

    • Lucian:
  • Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.

    • Li Bai:
  • He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

    • Hobbes:
  • The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”

    • Flaubert:
  • Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

    • Percy Shelley:
  • The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

    • Saadi:
  • Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

    • Anatole France:
  • A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

    • L. Martin King,:
  • Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

    • Balzac:
  • “Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”

    • Montaigne:
  • Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

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

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