It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.