Quotes about Ignorance
Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind.
— John Calvin
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
— John Calvin
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.
— Thomas Paine
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.
— Max Lucado
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
— Will Rogers
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
— Charles Kettering
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
— CS Lewis
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
— Ayn Rand
his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.
— Edith Wharton