Ignorance is bliss. It’s good to be in the dark about some things. If we knew every detail about our future, it would detract from the beauty of exploration.
A little knowledge can be dangerous, and ignorance is rarely a bad thing. To progress and feel fulfilled, it’s essential to know about all the possibilities so you can make informed decisions.
Some people choose not to think or worry about things they don’t have control over because they get frustrated by a lack of understanding in their lives. Ignorance means you don’t always need to understand everything around you, which can be a form of relief or escape from reality for some people who are feeling overwhelmed or hopeless in other areas of their lives.
These ignorance quotes can positively inspire your life. Read these inspirational quotes from famous people to learn more about the matter.
Here are Top 125 Ignorance Quotes And Sayings
“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” ― Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” ― Bertrand Russell
“The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.” ― Frank A. Clark
“Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.” ― Publilius Syrus
“Fear always springs from ignorance.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ignorance never settles a question.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.” ― Karl Popper
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” ― Daniel J. Boorstin
“Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.” ― Jeremy Taylor
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” ― Hippocrates
“Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold
“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never heard of.” ― Ralph B. Perry
“Awaken from ignorance so that you may live your dreams.” ― ATGW
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.” ― Voltaire
“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.” ― Cicero
“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.” ― George Chapman
“Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems.” ― Naomi Judd
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” ― Alfred North Whitehead
“I didn’t know what you couldn’t do. I didn’t deliberately set out to invent anything. It just seemed to me, ‘Why not?’ There is a great gift that ignorance has to bring to anything, you know. That was the gift I brought to Citizen Kane, ignorance.” ― Orson Welles
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Living is easy with eyes closed.” ― John Lennon
“Until you can ignore ignorance, neglect negativity, and disregard disrespect, you’re not ready for the next level. Success isn’t for the weak.” ― Anonymous
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.” ― Horace Mann
“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.” ― Sting
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” ― Maya Angelou
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” ― Dalai Lama
“ It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.” ― Voltaire
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.” ― James F. Cooper
“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put them. The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, is to confess your ignorance.” ― Confucius
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” ― James Baldwin
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man is responsible for his ignorance.” ― Milan Kundera
“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, pride, and annoyance.” ― Samuel Butler
“Ignorance should not be tolerated. It isn’t worthy of our understanding or sympathy.” ― Ethan Hunter
“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.” ― William Gaddis
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.” ― William Shakespeare
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” ― Wayne Dyer
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” ― Saul Bellow
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.” ― Robert Quillen
“Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.” ― Richard Dawkins
“It’s indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.” ― Diego Luna
“Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.” ― James Anthony Froude
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ― Harlan Ellison
“Most people are drowning in their delusional ignorance without knowing that their suffering was created by themselves.” ― Jakusho Kwong Roshi
“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.” ― Robert Browning
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.” ― Herman Melville
“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.” ― Michel de Montaigne
“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture.” ― Robert Fulghum
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” ― John F. Kennedy
“ Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. It all stems from ignorance.” ― Jim Rohn
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” ― Mark Twain
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.” ― Aldous Huxley
“To succeed in life, you need two things ignorance and confidence.” ― Mark Twain
“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.” ― Arnold H. Glasow
“Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.” ― David Gross
“One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset.” ― Wallace Stevens
“Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.” ― Wes Fessler
“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.” ― Victor Cousin
“ Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.” ― Anonymous
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” ― W. Clement Stone
“Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.” ― Anonymous
“There is no sin but ignorance.” ― Christopher Marlowe
“Ignorance is always afraid of change.” ― Jawaharlal Nehru
“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.” ― Jasper Fforde
“A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd.” ― Chinese Proverb
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.” ― Osho
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” ― Robert Orben
“Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.” ― Lisa Shearin
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” ― Elbert Hubbard
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” ― Thomas Paine
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” ― Francis of Assisi
“The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.” ― Max Heindel
“ Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.” ― Oscar Wilde
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.” ― William Osler
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” ― Charles Darwin
“Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. It all stems from ignorance.” ― Jim Rohn
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.” ― Daniel Handler
“Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.” ― Euripides
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.” ― Socrates
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ― Mark Twain
“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” ― Derek Bok
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” ― Daniel J. Boorstin
“There is no darkness but ignorance.” ― William Shakespeare
“To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.” ― Ann Plato
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.” ― Moliere
“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.” ― Jay Bylsma
“Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.” ― Plato
“Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.” ― Eoin Colfer
“Ignorance is the mother of all evils.” ― Francois Rabelais
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.” ― Confucius
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” ― Winston Churchill
“Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.” ― David Brock
“Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.” ― Frank Dane
“War is peace, freedom is slavery, and Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell
“Don’t let anyone’s ignorance, hate, drama or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be.” ― Anonymous
“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.” ― Amos Bronson Alcott
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“ There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.” ― Charles Kettering
“Ignorance breeds fear. Knowledge drives those fears out.” ― M. K. Soni
“To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.” ― John Ruskin
“Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.” ― Eoin Colfer
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.” ― Noam Chomsky
“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” ― Emma Goldman “To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.” ― Lao Tzu
