quotations about ignorance
Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
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
I fear my ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOV
The Gods Themselves
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE
"The Three Brides"
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
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