Alfred the Great Quotes

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

My ignorance is widespread.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

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 only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

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

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

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