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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.