Quotes about Ignorance

• The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
• The most violent element in society is ignorance.
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
• Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
• Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
• You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.  Most people do.
• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. 
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. 
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
• The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
• Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.  If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
• You can be sincere and still be stupid. 
• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. 
• Ignorance is a right!  Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
• Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. 
• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
• History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization.  By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.
• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
• Dopeler effect:  The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
• Ignoranus:  A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 
• Light travels faster than sound.  That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.
• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe.  I dispute that.  I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
• Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.
• We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?  ~Author Unknown The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. 
• The most violent element in society is ignorance.
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.
• Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
• Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
• You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.  Most people do.
• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. 
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
• The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
• Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.  If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. 
• You can be sincere and still be stupid. 
• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
• Ignorance is a right!  Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. 
• Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. 
• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
• History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization.  By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. 
• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
• Dopeler effect:  The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 
• Ignoranus:  A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 
• Light travels faster than sound.  That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.
• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe.  I dispute that.  I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
• Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.
• We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?