Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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

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.

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

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

There is no sin but ignorance.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

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

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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

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.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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.

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

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.