Robert Silverberg Quotes

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

The gateways to wisdom and knowledge are always open.