Quotes on Knowledge And Ignorance

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.