Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

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

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.