TRUE a little learning is a dangerous thing but it still beats total ignorance.

Learning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Not ignorance but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

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.