Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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