How It Is With Ignorance

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

What you don't know can't hurt you.

You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is so much of it.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw  (1856-1950)

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience.
 
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance.
Spanish Proverb

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Bob Hope (1903-2003)

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius (551-479 BC)


Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, but ignorance is a close second.
Tom Carroll