Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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.

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