Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.

The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

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

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam’s message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

the leading error of the human mind, – the bane of human happiness – the perverter of human virtue … is Religion – that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion – that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion – that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion – that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The library is every child’s lighthouse. It is every person’s
sanctuary. It is every town and county’s fortress in the face of
ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; – and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith – It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, – and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.