Benjamin Franklin Ignorance Quotes & Sayings

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new. — Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again. — Benjamin Franklin

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin

It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it". — Nikki Sixx

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day. — Benjamin Franklin

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues? — Tom T. Hall

When you're violent you undermine everything. — Chris Hedges

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament. — Benjamin Franklin

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. — Benjamin Franklin

If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world. — Elie Wiesel

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real. — Will Durant

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin

Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is meaningless. — Haruki Murakami

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it. — Katharine Hepburn

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand. — John Burns

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. — Benjamin Franklin