Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

— David Lynch

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

— Herbert Spencer

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

— Maimonides

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

— John Adams

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

— Marjane Satrapi

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

— Will Rogers

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

— Charles Kettering

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

— Louis D. Brandeis