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Ignorance Quotes

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"
Plato
"Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it"
Thomas Paine
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
Marilyn vos Savant
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"
Plato
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
Charles Bukowski
"O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!"
William Shakespeare
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
William Shakespeare
"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance"
Benjamin Franklin
"We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid"
Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference"
Yuval Noah Harari
"Ignorance is no crime and that young people should not be blamed for their ignorance, but somehow we should get around to doing something about it"
Richard Dawkins
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance"
Francis of Assisi
"It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)"
Richard Dawkins
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
Bill Watterson
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"
Will Durant
"There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep."
Desmond Tutu
"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know"
Noam Chomsky
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