The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and […]
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance […]
Ignoramus, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
The trouble ain’t that people are ignorant: it’s that they know so much that ain’t so.
It iz better tew know nothing than tew know what ain’t so.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
