There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
“Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance”
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.