The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call "civilization" rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.
We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.