"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!"

"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects."

"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."

"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."

"Ignorant men Don't know what good they hold in their hands until They've flung it away."

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

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

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

"In our infinite ignorance we are all equal."

"Ignorance always carries a price tag."

"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

"Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thätige Unwissenheit."

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

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

"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."

"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."

"Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance."

"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both."

"Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ"

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

"Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."

"If there ever comes a day when I deliberately embrace ignorance, I’ll have lived one day too long."

"The wise preach to the ignorant when the latter ask them to do so. Through this the ignorant may attain sudden enlightenment, and their mind thereby becomes illuminated. Then they are no longer different from the wise men."

"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."

"The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. The first requisite for this is that we become aware of men’s necessary ignorance of much that helps him to achieve his aims."

"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."

"And his best riches, ignorance of wealth."

"To each his suff’rings; all are men, Condemn’d alike to groan,— The tender for another’s pain, Th’ unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, ’T is folly to be wise."