Quotations on Ignorance
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
-Will Rogers
A little learning is a bad thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
-Bob Edwards
I envy the animals two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
-Voltaire
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
-George McGovern
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
-Lord David Cecil
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-Confucius
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
-James Baldwin
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-Galileo Galilei
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
-Laurence J. Peter
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
-Kurt Vonnegut
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
-Margaret Halsey
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-Isaac Asimov

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