C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Charles J. C. Lyall There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.
Aldous Huxley At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
Lytton Strachey The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Sankara The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Will Rogers If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out
Unknown Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Edwin H. Land Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Frank Leahy Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Jean de la Bruyere There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
Anon. Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Gustave Flaubert Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Vladimir Nabokov My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Edward Abbey One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Doris Fleeson It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Vartan Gregorian Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Conan Doyle When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Sacha Guitry The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.
Albert Einstein Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Harry Homes Ignorance is the mother of fear.
Will Durant Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Johann von Goethe Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Louis D. Brandeis Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Mignon McLaughlin It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Jean de La Fontaine Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Benjamin Disraeli The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
Sophy Burnham To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Gustave Flaubert Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Adlai E. Stevenson For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Irene Peter Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Laertius Diogenes He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Mark Twain All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Con****ius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
