Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.

The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.