Quotes about Ignorance

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

In my opinion, the greatest sin in the church of Jesus Christ in this generation is ignorance of the Word of God. Many times I have heard a church officer say, "Well I don't know much about the Bible, but..." and then he gives his opinion, which often actually contradicts the Word of God! Why doesn't he know much about the Bible? These things were written aforetime for our learning. God wants you to know His Word.

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy.

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God's precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.