•“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.” 
― John Marsden

•“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll   

•“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.” 
― Aberjhani

•“Beware the man of a single book.” 
― St. Thomas Aquinas

•“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge” 
― Alfred North Whitehead

•“No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.” 
― John F. Kennedy

•“It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” 
― Ron Rash

•“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
― William Hazlitt 

•“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley 

•“Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.” 
― Osho

•“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
― William Osler 

•“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.” 
― William Beveridge

•“If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.”
― Leo Buscaglia 

•“life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid” 
― John Wayne

•“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
― Benjamin Franklin   

•“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

•“he who will not economize will have to agonize” 
― Confucius

•“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
― Laurence J. Peter 

•“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.” 
― Stephen R. Covey

•“Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.” 
― Lionel Suggs

•“In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.”
― Paul Harris 

•“No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

•“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.” 
― Alice Walker

•“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
― Arnold H. Glasow 

•“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.” 
― Anthony de Mello

•“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.” 
― Booker T. Washington

•“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
― Gustave Flaubert   

•“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
― Samuel Butler 

•“The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

•“The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.” 
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

•“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.” 
― Mercedes Lackey

•“The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.” 
― Ogwo David Emenike

•“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” 
― Isaac Newton

•“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
― Ambrose Bierce 

•“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

•“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”
― Wayne Dyer 

•“Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.”
― Victor Cousin 

•“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

•“Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.” 
― K. G. Johnson

•“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” 
― Joe Abercrombie

•“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
― Gian Carlo Menotti 

•“Ignorance: that blind faculty equally ready to believe and fear the same thing when augmented by knowledge.” 
― Bauvard

•“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.” 
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. 

•“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” 
― Aldous Huxley

•“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.” 
― Horace Mann

•“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.” 
― Jane Austen

•“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.” 
― Jay M. Bylsma

•“A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.” 
― Adedayo kingjerry

•“The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.”
― Frank A. Clark 

•“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte

•“I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.” 
― Andrew Levkoff

•“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•“The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?” 
― Maya Angelou

•“He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” 
― Alexander Hamilton

•“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” 
― Bertrand Russell

•“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.” 
― Steve Alten