Ignorance Quotes

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. (Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887)

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

His ignorance is encyclopedic. (Abba Eban, 1915-)

To the ignorant even the words of the wise seen foolishness. (Euripides, 480-406 b.c.)

Ignorance of the law excuses no man: not that all can know the law, but because 'tis an excuse everyone will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. (John Selden, 1584-1654)

There is no darkness, but ignorance. (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

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