Quotes about Ignorance
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
— Albert Camus
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
— Mark Twain
If you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.
— Mark Twain
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so
— Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
— Mark Twain
To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven
— Mark Twain
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.
— Mark Twain
What's the name of the first point above New Orleans?' I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
— Mark Twain
To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence
— Mark Twain
Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.