Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes

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

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

There is an ABC ignorance which precedes knowledge and a doctoral ignorance which comes after it.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound then the full barrel.

Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.