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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” ― Albert Einstein
“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.” ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ― Rabindranath Tagore
“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” ― Will Rogers
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.” ― Robert A. Millikan
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows” ― Joseph Campbell
“I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.” ― Clarence S. Darrow
“I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” ― J. B. S. Haldane
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” ― Unknown
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.” ― Horace Mann
“Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.” ― Swami Vivekananda
“Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.” ― Frank Dane
“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.” ― Confucius
“Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.” ― Wes Fessler
“In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.” ― Charles F. Kettering
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings ” ― Salvador Dali
“It is impossible to make someone understand their own ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it has it not.” ― Jeremy Taylor
“Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Never attribute to stupidity that which may be attributed to ignorance” ― part of Hanlon's Razor
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ” ― Thomas Paine
“Sticking to it is the genius.” ― Thomas Edison
“That everyone may learn to read will in the long run corrupt not only writing but also thinking.” ― Nietzsche
“The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” ― Cecil
“The glass of water that I hold in my hands is what we 'know'. What we 'don't know' is the ocean.” ― Tarun Kuckian
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ― Stephen Hawking
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.” ― Wayne Dyer
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those that cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” ― Alvin Toffler
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” ― Emma Goldman
“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.” ― Aldous Huxley
“The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.” ― Samuel Butler
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” ― H.L. Mencken
“To be ignorant of one’s own ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.” ― Amos Alcolt
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, 1984
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” ― John Archibald Wheeler
“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” ― Mark Twain
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise” ― Thomas Gray's poem
“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?” ― Calvin
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ― Harlan Ellison
“You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.” ― Eric Clapton to John Mayer
“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” ― Michael Phelps
