Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.