These ignorance quotes will inspire you. Ignorance, lack of knowledge, or information.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging ignorance quotes, ignorance sayings, and ignorance proverbs.
Inspirational Ignorance Quotes
- “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ignorance quotes and stupidity
- “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.” ~ Barack Obama
- “All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” ~ Confucius
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“Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” ~ Plato
- “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” ~ W. Clement Stone
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ~ Harlan Ellison
- “The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.” ~ William Osler
- “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” ~ Plato
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“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” ~ Emma Goldman
- “Humans see what they want to see.” ~ Rick Riordan
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“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.” ~ Samuel Butler
- “The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” ~ Edith Sitwell
- “Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” ~ Francis of Assisi
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“The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.” ~ Mencius
- “I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” ~ Gerry Spence
- “The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
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“It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox’s sermon.” ~ John Lyly
- “On entering this world our starting point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.” ~ Horace Mann
- “Against logic, there is no armor like ignorance.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
- “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” ~ James Madison
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“Fear always springs from ignorance.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.” ~ Anthony de Mello
- “Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ~ Will Durant
- “Ignorance is the womb of monsters.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.” ~ Confucius
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“If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” ~ Galileo Galilei
- “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.” ~ Plato
- “The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” ~ Albert Camus
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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
- “Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.” ~ Jon Stewart
- “A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.” ~ William Hazlitt
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” ~ Charles Darwin
- “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Nothing is worse than active ignorance.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” ~ Mark Twain
- “It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” ~ Richard Dawkins
- “Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.” ~ Euripides
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“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “Ignorance is always afraid of change.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Ignorance lies not in the things you don’t know, but in the things you know that ain’t so.” ~ Will Rogers
- “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” ~ John F. Kennedy
