Ignorance

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. – Aldous Huxley

The most violent element in society is ignorance. – Emma Goldman

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. – Saul Bellow

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. – John Dewey

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. – Norman Juster

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. – William G. McAdoo

God save me from him who studies but one book. – Italian Proverb

A little learning is dangerous, but downright ignorance is even more disastrous. – Author unknown, from The Galveston Daily News, 1894 June 10th

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. – Bertrand Russell

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett

You can be sincere and still be stupid. – Charles F. Kettering

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. – Christopher Andrea

Your ignorance cramps my conversation. – Anthony Hope

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. – Anatole France

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. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. – Alfred North Whitehead

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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. – Frank Zappa