Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.