Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice and imitation and custom rear it up.

The dilemma of modern medicine and the underlying central flaw in medical education and most of all in the training of interns is the irresistible drive to do something anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors in the face of ignorance.

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

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

If you think education is expensive try ignorance.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics because discrimination poverty and ignorance restrict growth while investments in education infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Men are born ignorant not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

TRUE a little learning is a dangerous thing but it still beats total ignorance.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted it is worse.

Learning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play fully within the definition of work and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

To be immortal is commonplace except for man all creatures are immortal for they are ignorant of death what is divine terrible incomprehensible is to know that one is immortal.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change whether you want it to or not.