Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know, that the people alone can protect us against these evils (of monarchy), and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose, is not more than a thousandth part of what will […]

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Ignorance is the necessary condition of life itself. If we knew everything we could not endure existence for a single hour.

We can get over being poor, but it takes longer to get over being ignorant.