Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.
New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez relies on a lot of economic ignorance to get you to believe what's not true could be true.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
