Inspirational Quotes on Ignorance

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”

“Beware the man of a single book.”

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; ; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment... have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own. [ ]”

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)”

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”

“originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”

“How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.”

“Knowledge leaves no room for chances.”

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

“Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?”