Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

Only in the United States could you believe that people could be changed by information.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Knowledge always liberates.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.