There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.
Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
