If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.
If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.
An earlier variant of this quotation was made by the Harvard University President, Derek Bok {634685}.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.
When ignorance reigns, life is lost...
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.
There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.
Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.