Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

There is an ABC ignorance which precedes knowledge and a doctoral ignorance which comes after it.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

He that knows little often repeats it.

Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness.

Ignorance and iliteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.