Quotes About Ignorance and Stupidity

No human folly can suppress the conceit of ignorance.

— Charles Victor Roman

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

— Jean Toomer

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

— Flip Wilson

Fear always springs from ignorance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

— Mark Twain

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

— Eric Hoffer

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.

— Matthew Prior

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.

— Confucius

Ignorance is not bliss—it is oblivion.

— Philip Wylie

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was born stupid and greatly improved his birthright.

— Samuel Butler

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

— Oscar Wilde

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence.

— Elbert Hubbard