Ignorance proverbs

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◆ Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

- Eoin Colfer99

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

- John Lennon99

◆ The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin99

◆ You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

- Harlan Ellison99

◆ There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

- William Goldman99

◆ There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ It takes a very long time to become young.

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

- Richard Dawkins99

◆ Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ All things truly wicked start from innocence.

- Ernest Hemingway99