I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.

— Luciano De Crescenzo

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

— Eugenio Montale

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

— David Gross

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

— Henry Miller

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

— Joy Page

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

— Isaiah Berlin

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

— David Horowitz

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

— Paul Harris

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

— Montel Williams

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

— James A. Baldwin