Ignorance Quotes and Sayings
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
- Thomas Paine
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
- Mignon McLaughlin
You don’t have to care about everything around you. Some things are best to be left ignored.
Ignore those people who talk about you behind your back, that’s where they belong.
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
- Robert Fulghum
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.
- Thomas Hobbes
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
- Booker T. Washington
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
- Jonathan Hennessey
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
- Jasper Fforde
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
- Molière
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
- Dalai Lama XIV
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
- Joe Abercrombie
Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.
- Jay M. Bylsma