Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.