#Ignorance Quotes

“He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache”

“In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.”

“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.”

“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”

“We make trifles of terrors,Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.”

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”

“History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.”

“Fear always springs from ignorance.”

“He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)”

“We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.”

“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”

“You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.”

“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”

“The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”

“A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.”

“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.”

“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”

“What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.”

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.”

“We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.”

“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

“I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.”

“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.”

“The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.”

“Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.”

“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”

“O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.”

“Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.”

“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”

“It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.”

“We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.”

“no people can be both ignorant and free.”

“Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.”

“Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; youngWe loved each other and were ignorant.”

“All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.”

“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”

“Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”