Prudery is ignorance. [ Goldsmith ]

O thou monster ignorance! [ William Shakespeare ]

The law succors the ignorant. [ Law Maxim ]

Ignorance of the fact excuses. [ Law ]

Error is worse than Ignorance. [ Bailey ]

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

Mobs are multiplied ignorance. [ Sir W. Jones ]

Ignorance is the mother of fear. [ Lord Kames ]

Dull, unfeeling, barren ignorance. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no darkness but ignorance. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fear always springs from ignorance. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Ignorance never settles a question. [ Beaconsfield ]

Marvel is the daughter of Ignorance, [ Booke of Merry Riddles, 1629 ]

Wonder is the daughter of Ignorance. [ Proverb ]

There is no calamity like ignorance. [ Richter ]

Ignorance of the law excuses nobody. [ Law ]

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. [ Hazlitt ]

They most assume, who know the least. [ Gay ]

Ignorance is the mother of all evils. [ Montaigne ]

Ignorance is the mother of impudence. [ Proverb ]

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. [ W. R. Alger ]

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. [ Froude ]

What ignorance there is in human minds. [ Ovid ]

Science is the topography of ignorance. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Science
Is but an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance. [ Byron ]

Admiration is the daughter of Ignorance. [ Proverb ]

Presumption is the daughter of Ignorance. [ Rivarol ]

Superstition is the daughter of Ignorance. [ Mme. Deshoulieres ]

Positive in proportion to their ignorance. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Let ignorance talk, learning has its value. [ La Fontaine ]

Detraction is the sworn friend to ignorance. [ John Webster ]

There is nothing more daring than Ignorance. [ Menander ]

Ignorance is less hateful than conceitedness. [ Proverb ]

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]

Where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise. [ Gray ]

Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance. [ Goethe ]

Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance. [ William Shakespeare ]

By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn. [ Proverb ]

Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is right. [ Punch ]

Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. [ Temple ]

All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. [ Johnson ]

Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. [ Plato ]

Ignorance is less distant from truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. [ Cleanthes ]

Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge leads to woe. [ Beattie ]

The more we study, we the more discover our ignorance. [ Shelley ]

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. [ Goethe ]

Should we condemn ourselves to ignorance to preserve hope? [ E. Souvestre ]

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. [ Rochefoucauld ]

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. [ Samuel Foote ]

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. [ Bossuet ]

Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only deprived of its charm. [ De Boufflers ]

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance. [ Proverb ]

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and adopted by folly. [ Smollett ]

There is an Admiration that is not the daughter of Ignorance. [ R. Glanville ]

The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can ever end. [ Beaconsfield ]

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

A man is helpless and unsafe up to the measure of his ignorance. [ M. F. Tupper ]

From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. [ Prior ]

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. [ Confucius ]

Fanaticism is the daughter of Ignorance, and the mother of Infidelity. [ J. Bellenden ]

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. [ Samuel Butler ]

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [ Lucretius ]

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. [ Colton ]

The only conquests that cause no regrets, are those made over ignorance. [ Napoleon I ]

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. [ Spurgeon ]

Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. [ Gay ]

Faults of ignorance are excuseable only, where the ignorance itself is so. [ Proverb ]

Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. [ Petrarch ]

It is better to be unborn than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune. [ Plato ]

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. [ Gregory ]

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

His best companions innocence and health, and his best riches ignorance of wealth. [ Goldsmith ]

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. [ Abraham Coles ]

Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with. [ Locke ]

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance. [ Saadi ]

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. [ William Shakespeare ]

Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. [ Quarles ]

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. [ Confucius ]

Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance. [ Zimmermann ]

The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. [ Oxenstiern ]

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. [ Colton ]

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind. [ Addison ]

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off, and ignorance begins. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. [ Byron ]

Want of courage upon some occasions assumes the appearance of ignorance, and betrays us when we most want to excel. [ Goldsmith ]

Ignorance, says Ajax, is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

It is not easy to be a widow: one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to even feign its ignorance. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. [ Saadi ]

Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones. [ Pascal ]

Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It thieves most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven, and the light of the sun. [ Hoss ]

Some men are counted wise from the cunning manner in which they hide their ignorance. In what little they do know such men play the pedant. [ A. Ricard ]

Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. [ Fielding ]

Confidence, as opposed to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. [ Jeremy Collier ]

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. [ Beaconsfield ]

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Fortunately, in England at any rate, Education produces no effect whatsoever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. [ Colton ]

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. [ Selden ]

Men love better books which please them than those which instruct. Since their ennui troubles them more than their ignorance, they prefer being amused to being informed. [ L'Abbe Dubois ]

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. [ Feltham ]

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty, for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. [ Frances Kemble ]

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. [ Colton ]

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions, discoveries, enterprises, and ideas which have illustrated the ages, and marked eras in human progress. [ E. de Girardin ]

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]

The curse and peril of language in our day, and particularly in this country, is that it is at the mercy of men who, instead of being content to use it well according to their honest ignorance, use it ill according to their affected knowledge. [ Richard Grant White ]

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance; than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Colton ]

Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity. But the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as they are less polished. [ Warton ]

A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Sir R. B. Cotton ]

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. [ Colton ]

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]

So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn : he that is so fondly modest, not to acknowledge his own defects of knowledge, shall in time, be so foully impudent to justify his own ignorance; ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and, justified, the chiefest of all follies. [ Quarks ]

Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. [ J. Beaumont ]

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. [ Adam Clarke ]

The unaffected of every country nearly resemble each other, and a page of our Confucius and your Tillotson have scarce any material difference. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. [ Goldsmith ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]