God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

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.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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

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

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