Ignorance Quotes
On what we don't know and why it matters.
One quote here makes an unexpected point about science, arguing that progress mostly deepens our awareness of just how much remains unknown rather than eliminating it. Another calls ignorance a person's greatest asset, a wry, almost self-deprecating twist on the word.
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance...
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
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A sharper warning holds that ignorance alone isn't especially dangerous, but paired with power it becomes a genuinely toxic mix. For related reading, see our knowledge quotes and education quotes pages.
