IGNORANCE QUOTES V

quotations about ignorance

Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I fear my ignorance.

ISAAC ASIMOV

The Gods Themselves


Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

WALTER CRONKITE

attributed, Public Speaking: A Concise Overview for the Twenty-first Century


Ignorance and Innocence are twins in the same cradle. Ignorance is never reared, and her death is either the death of Innocence also, or her immortality.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE

"The Three Brides"


Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères


Ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Camel Club

Tags: David Baldacci


There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

LORD ACTON

letter to Richard Simpson, Jan. 23, 1861