quotations about ignorance
I fear my ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOV
The Gods Themselves
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
WALTER CRONKITE
attributed, Public Speaking: A Concise Overview for the Twenty-first Century
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
CHARLES DE LINT
The Onion Girl
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE
"The Three Brides"
Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Camel Club
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
LORD ACTON
letter to Richard Simpson, Jan. 23, 1861