We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

— Haile Selassie

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

— Carl Sagan

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit, but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

— William Ellery Channing

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

— Saadi

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

— Anne Lamott

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

— Eva Longoria

Whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviors. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

— Bill Watterson

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

— will.i.am