Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

I think it is Montaigne who said, that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. I am sure it is true as to everything political, and shall endeavor to estrange myself to everything of that character.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Whoever would be cured of ignorance must first confess it.

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned. . . Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones. (24th century BC)

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

My father, a good man, told me, “Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.”

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.