ignorance

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.

His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

To know the mighty works of God; to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.