All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge whic...
The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. One the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignora...
...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patient...
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.
Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic.
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.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe
I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students. A true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know, find that they know all, meet in that same ignorance...
It's a fact— is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it. Here is...
Ask advice of an ignorant man and he will think you are his enemy.
Every smart man is an ignoramus who abuses his ignorance.
That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
