Ignorance Quotes And Sayings

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“Ignorance is the womb of monsters.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.”
– Horace Mann

“On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.”
– Horace Mann

“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up all the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.”
– Horace Mann

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
– Isaac Asimov

“A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.”
– Jafar Muhammad

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
– James Baldwin

“Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face.”
– James D. Finley

“Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. ”
– Jane Rule

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.” 
– Jasper Fforde

“Really we create nothing.  We merely plagiarize nature.”
– Jean Baitaillon

“Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.”
– Jean de la Fontaine

“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
– Jean-Luc Picard

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
– Jessamyn West

“Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.”
– John Locke

“We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.”
– Joseph Smith

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch

“It doesn’t matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.”
– K.J. Parker

“I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, “But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?”  “My dear fellow,” Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, “I have no need to think of them.  I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room.”
– Laurens Van der Post

“Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee.”
– Legal Maxim

“History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization.  By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.”
– Lemuel K. Washburn

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
– Lewis Carroll

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll

“The more ignorant a man is the more he thinks he ought to govern someone else.”
– Lewis F. Korns

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
– Livy

“Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.”
– Luc de Clapiers

“Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“Ignorance is the mother of presumption”
– Marie de Gournay

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