Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

American Scientist

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

French Writer

Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

American Author

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

American Writer

Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Italian Saint

Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Tibetan Leader

Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Scottish Philosopher

George Orwell

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

British Author

Leo Buscaglia

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

George Santayana

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Spanish Philosopher

Sometimes used neutrally to indicate someone simply doesn't know something yet.

Positive usage

Combining 'ignorance' with different prepositions changes its implied meaning.

Collocation caution

'Ignorance' doesn't always mean someone is at fault for not knowing.

Non-judgmental

Often suggests a person's choice not to learn or understand things.

Negative connotation

Can imply a temporary state that can be improved with education or experience.

Not always permanent

People sometimes pretend not to know something on purpose.

Feigned ignorance

Highlights absence of knowledge in certain areas, not overall intelligence.

Lack of specifics

May be used for not knowing social norms or information relevant in certain cultures.

Cultural understanding

Often used before areas of knowledge like laws, traditions, facts to specify the unknown.

Can be specific

 So, we took another group, a large group of Americans, and we asked them the question in the veil of ignorance. What are the characteristics of a country that would make you want to join it, knowing that you could end randomly at any place? And here is what we got. What did people want to give to the first group,

How equal do we want the...

 the dark ages all right you're essentially perpetuating ignorance by denying science you know there's a real-life implication in all of this science has had its chance and they aren't putting up a defense I think that the flat earth could potentially uh sure in a new golden age or it could assure

Flat Earth vs. Round...

 we have to be more systematic when we fight devastating ignorance. So already the pilots reveal this, that so many in the public score worse than random, so we have to think about preconceived ideas, and one of the main preconceived ideas is about world income distribution.

How not to be ignorant...

 That's the stigma. We are so, so, so accepting of any body part breaking down other than our brains. And that's ignorance. That's pure ignorance, and that ignorance has created a world that doesn't understand depression, that doesn't understand mental health.

Why we need to talk...

 that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition. Thank you.

Is the world getting...

 roll a little bit of the film okay only have this idea where humans at the ocean is so big so vast so resilient it doesn't matter what we do to it helps raise our ignorance is really the biggest problem that we now face we now

Taking care of the ocean...

 You see, it's our disconnection from each other. Hatred is born of ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation is its mother. When we don't understand something, we tend to be afraid of it, and if we keep ourselves from it,

My descent into...

 of what it's like to be a philosopher trying to educate the public. Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance but hostile to anyone who points it out. In fact, the real life Socrates was sentenced to death

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 But in science, knowing a lot of stuff is not the point. Knowing a lot of stuff is there to help you get to more ignorance. So knowledge is a big subject, but I would say ignorance is a bigger one.

Stuart Firestein: The...

 these two nests in mutual ignorance for all these years these new honey ants are unlike any the Corral workers have encountered before they are big and