An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | ignorance
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
Bhagavad Gita – Ignorance
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler – Ignorance
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
Voltaire – Superstition, Ignorance
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Samuel Johnson – Criticism, Ignorance
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
Samuel Johnson – Ignorance
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde – Journalism, Ignorance
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Goethe – Ignorance
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin – Ignorance & Stupid
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders
Maya Angelou – Ignorance
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Charles Dickens – Ignorance
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero – Ignorance
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man’s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Cicero – History, Ignorance
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
Marcus Tulius Cicero – Ignorance, Arrogance
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
