You know when you’re young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in? – Christopher Guest
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. – John Archibald Wheeler
I don’t even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it’s ignorance; it’s no belief, no confidence, it’s insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else. – Alek Wek
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory. – Benjamin Tucker
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It’s just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else. – Adam Rapp
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone’s illiterate, but you wouldn’t really call that privacy. That’s ignorance. – Bruce Sterling
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. – Baltasar Gracian
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. – Blaise Pascal
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self. – Baruch Spinoza
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. – Benjamin Disraeli
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. – Anthony Hope
People have said, ‘Let’s build bridges,’ and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West. – Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance. – bell hooks
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. – Bill Richardson
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. – Anna Garlin Spencer