IGNORANCE

Related Subjects: Darkness, Prejudice, Stupidity, Superstition

1. Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.—CONFUCIUS, Analects
   

2. He [ Socrates] declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Socrates
   

3. Mr. Kremlin was distin­guished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.—DISRAELI, Sybil
   

4. Ignorance never settles a question.—DISRAELI
   

5. No more; where ignorance is bliss,
   'Tis folly to be wise.—THOMAS GRAY, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
   

6. Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.—JEFFERSON
   

7. A Smattering of Ignorance.—OSCAR LEVANT, Title of Book
   

8. By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.—Proverb
   

9. Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so.—Proverb
   

10. Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.—Proverb

11. Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

12. Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches.—SCHOPENHAUER
    

13. That unlettered small-knowing soul.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

14. A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

15. What you don't know would make a great book.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
    

16. The happiest life consists in ignorance,
    Before you learn to grieve and to rejoice.—SOPHOCLES, Ajax
    

17. Blind and naked Ignorance
    Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed,
    On all things all day long.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King

18. I envy the beasts two things —their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.—VOLTAIRE