Ignorance of what real learning is and a consequent suspicion of it materialism and a consequent intellectual laxity both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning my answer has at least one merit that of perfect sincerity.
Let ignorance talk as it will learning has its value.
Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?
Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge leads to woe.
You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Every mind was made for growth for knowledge and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
If they exert it not for good they will for evil if they advance not knowledge they will perpetuate ignorance.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
There are in fact two things science and opinion the former begets knowledge the later ignorance.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.