40 phrases about ignorance that will make you reflect on closed minds

The sage can change his mind. The ignorant, never.

Kant

Ignorance and hypocrisy go hand in hand. Where one is the other, of course, the other is next to it.

Never respond to ignorance in kind, as ignorance says much more about the other than you do.

Where there is love and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The greatest evil of humanity is ignorance, for nothing good comes from it. We become self-centered in our own world and close ourselves off to new learning.

Ignorance is an ego illusion. With it, we are shielded from new knowledge and from recognizing our own faults.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself.

Nicolas Boileau

Selfishness causes ignorance, anger and lack of control, which are the origin of the world’s problems.

Dalai Lama

Forgive other people’s ignorance, not everyone has your kindness.

Fernanda Oliveira

My respect ends when your ignorance begins.

Argumentation is an exchange of knowledge. Discussion is an exchange of ignorance.

Ignorance always fears change.

Wisdom and ignorance are transmitted like diseases; hence the need to know how to choose the companies.

William Shakespeare

Knowledge extends life. To know is to live a reality that ignorance prevents us from enjoying.

Carlos Bernardo Gonzalez Pecotte

Ignorance is cheeky because it thinks it knows everything. Wisdom is cautious because she knows she can always learn something new.

React with intelligence even when you are treated with ignorance.

Lao Tzu

Don’t let the ignorance of others limit your kindness and thirst for knowledge. We only grow when we expand.

History teaches us that at the beginning of the greatest tragedies there was ignorance.

The price of education is only paid once. The price of ignorance is paid for life.

Where there is ignorance there is no dialogue, there is no evolution. And in those places I don’t want to stay.

He who knows his ignorance reveals the deepest wisdom. Those who ignore their ignorance live in the deepest illusion.

Lao Tzu

Ignorance is the most violent element of society.

Emma Goldman

A person blinded by ignorance is a person without empathy.

Nothing scarier than ignorance in action.

Johann Goethe

Ignorance is thinking your point of view is a full stop.

Clara Og

In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.

Barack Obama

To be aware of one’s ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

The conflict is not between good and evil, but between knowledge and ignorance.

Buddha

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

François Rabelais

There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.

Robert Browning

To remain in ignorance is to sign a certificate of mediocrity.

The worst prison is a closed mind and full of ignorance.

Ignorance is thinking that throwing garbage on the streets contributes to the job of street sweepers.

Certain creatures have a habit of giving good advice, needing it so much for themselves. That’s what I call the height of ignorance.

Oscar Wilde

Illusory superiority syndrome: when ignorance disguises itself as knowledge.

Luiza Fletcher

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

An act of ignorance hurts the recipient and blinds the performer.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscious stupidity.

Martin Luther King