John Milton Quotes

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

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

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything about both sides, you'll pretty much be in the middle again, which is the state you had when you were totally ignorant. So my theory is if you maintain total ignorance - which isn't easy, but I try - you'll be just as far ahead as if you'd spent days and days reading about the whole issue. And you have that much extra time to play Pac-man.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.

I sometimes think that I think too much. Sometimes I envy the ignorant. I envy people who can just turn it off and be blissful and not care. But that isn't me. I just have never found a way.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.