"One who intends to understand grasps even the slightest hint, but the one who has no intention to understand never comprehends, no matter how loudly you shout."

"The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance."

"O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!"

"Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches. The poor man is restrained by poverty and need: labour occupies his thoughts, and takes the place of knowledge. But rich men who are ignorant live for their lusts only, and are like the beasts of the field, as may be seen every day; and they can also be reproached for not having used wealth and leisure for that which gives them their greatest value."

"It is my own peculiarity that I cannot bear ignorance, nor the ignorance of ignoramuses, and even less the ignorance of the informed. Therefore, I decided long ago to converse with the reader on this matter, and to construct before his very eyes—and in his face, if necessary—a different, new reader, one constructed according to my own ideas."

"So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!"

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

"Ignorance cannot lead to evil, misconceptions lead to evil. It is not what people do know, it’s what they pretend they do."

"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects."

"The words of Lord Buddha that "ignorance is the greatest crime because it brings all miseries to humanity" should be, by now, assimilated by the consciousness of people. Until the leaders of the countries possess brilliant intellects and especially a spiritual synthesis, which helps to embrace all the planes of existence, there will be no real progress."

"If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face."

"Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque."

"Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem"

"We live in a golden age of ignorance, and Trump and Brexit are part of that."

"We seem to know a lot about knowledge. What is remarkable, though, is how little we know about ignorance."

"From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise."

"In our infinite ignorance we are all equal."

"People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists."

"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

"Ignorance always carries a price tag."

"Not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse."

"You can see how even the morals of a nation change. Hence, ignorance reacts to the pressure of the atmosphere. One must observe that ignorance clearly affirms the foundations of darkness. One can imagine how easily the undeveloped brain deteriorates when the heart is silent. The morals of the peoples droop like a withered apple tree."

"Knowledge and truth may be in us without judgment, and judgment also without them; but the confession of ignorance is one of the finest and surest testimonies of judgment that I know."

"All wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common ignorance."

"The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night."

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng."

"Are you of the stiff, the dry, Cursing the not understood;"

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

"To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence."

"There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore."

"Bring your ignorance to the Holy Spirit, the great teacher, who by His precious truth will lead you into all truth."

"The denser the ignorance, the more enlightened it thinks itself to be."

"Never was there a greater need for the diffusion of knowledge, for in the present ignorance of men there is a very real and imminent danger. We have in the immediate future the possibility of serious struggle; we have all the elements of a possible social upheaval, and we have no religion with sufficient hold upon the people to check what may develop into a wild and dangerous movement. As yet philosophy is the study of the very few only, and the science which has done so much for us, and has achieved so many triumphs, cannot stay the danger which threatens us. The only thing that can prevent it is the diffusion of knowledge, so that men shall understand what is really best for them and shall realize that nothing can ever be good for one which is against the interests of the whole. p. 333"

"Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial."

"Strange, that ignorance should be our best happiness in this life, and yet be the one we are ever striving to destroy!"

"He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance."

"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance."

"Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words; but opportunity will prevail."

"Unfortunately, the habit of praising or blaming without knowledge of the subject is becoming increasingly common to men of all parties today. This is not due to the failure of this or that doctrine, but to the crisis through which our whole civilisation is passing. At the same time this regrettable tendency adds greatly to the confusion in which all the sociological disputes of our day are taking place."

"Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public."

"There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness."

"Softmindedness often invades religion. … Softminded persons have revised the Beautitudes to read "Blessed are the pure in ignorance: for they shall see God." This has led to a widespread belief that there is a conflict between science and religion. But this is not true. There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. … Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary."

"We recognize that his hate grows out of fear, pride, ignorance, prejudice, and misunderstanding, but in spite of this, we know God's image is ineffably etched in being."

"So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things."

"It has become clear that people turn to their external systems to regulate a number of relational, existential, and epistemic threats... We leveraged this past research to develop a novel explanation for how people’s tendency to trust in their social systems, and outsource their worries and fears to these systems, can lead to the propagation of ignorance in the context of important social issues."

"There appears to be a discrepancy between the importance/self-relevance of social issues and people’s willingness to engage with and learn about them... Ignorance — as a function of the system justifying tendencies it may activate—may, ironically, breed more ignorance."

"He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces."

"Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance."