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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin
US historian (1914 - )

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

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

Isaac Asimov
US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi
US (Italian-born) physicist (1901 - 1954)

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli
British politician (1804 - 1881)

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere
French moralist (1645 - 1696)

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant
English social reformer & mystic in India (1847 - 1933)

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton
English biographer & fishing author (1593 - 1683)

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
English biographer (1880 - 1932)

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov
US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa
US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)

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