Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Racism springs from ignorance.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
