It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi
I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers’ work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. – Garrison Keillor
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong. – Charles Glover Barkla
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so. – Edwin Armstrong
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. – Eliezer Yudkowsky
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. – Charles Dudley Warner
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. – Edward Irving
When you’re fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance. – Eva Longoria
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. – Paul Harris
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books. – Felice Picano
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. – Frederick Soddy
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems. – Naomi Judd
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. – Dennis Prager
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. – Elias Hicks
I happen to have worked with male directors who don’t understand women at all. Not at all. I’m flabbergasted by their ignorance. – Catherine McCormack
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. – George Eliot
All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same. – Marjane Satrapi
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it. – Paul Harris