Quotes about Ignorance

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade—but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.

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

The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

There's always somebody that doesn't get the word.

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.