It’s said that knowledge is power. But for entrepreneurs, ignorance can be just as powerful – especially when it comes to quotes. Check out this compilation of some of the most inspiring ignorance quotes out there, and see how you can use them to your advantage in your business.

The best ignorance quotes

1. A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

2. When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were born to do. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

3. The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

4. Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. — Stephen Colbert

5. We are the author of our own destruction. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

6. The greatest evil in our country today is…ignorance…We need to be taught to study rather than to believe. — Septima Poinsette Clark

7. When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

8. Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

9. Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit. — Owen Sheers, Resistance

10. Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. — Thomas Jefferson

11. Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil Degrasse Tyson

12. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — Thomas Carlyle

13. Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

14. The biggest challenge of Gods people is ignorance. Ignorance has become a mountain and a stronghold even in Christian churches — Sunday Adelaja

15. The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

16. Ignorance doesn’t lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin.–Cinda Williams Chima — Scott Westerfeld, The World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues

17. Ignorance is a crime against ones self — rassool jibraeel snyman

18. But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll

19. Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

20. Knowledge is strength. Ignorance is the kiss of death. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

21. You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

22. Fear melts like ice when we allow love’s divine light to shine upon our ignorance. — Soul Dancer

23. In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. — William Shakespeare

24. Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing. — Ted Nugent

25. Believe that your life is not ordinary and never look down on what you can do to impact a life. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

26. Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance. — Nikola Tesla

27. It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France. — Milan Kundera, Ignorance

28. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution. — Noah Levine, Dharma Punx: A Memoir

29. The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

30. At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. — Pema Chodron

31. Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance. — Thom S. Rainer

32. As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

33. Make sure you are standing for something you believe in. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

34. Prejudice is ignorance. — Michael Jackson

35. I have no doubt that ignorance is the biggest obstacle facing the church of the lord Jesus Christ in this age — Sunday Adelaja

36. Time melts away in every passing moment. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

37. Grace is released more abundantly as you work. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

38. After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

39. Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right. — Stephen Covey

40. God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. — Neil Degrasse Tyson

41. When you reject knowledge, God rejects you. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

42. Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. — Thomas Jefferson

43. The real plague is willful ignorance and education can’t cure that. — Marty Rubin

44. One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance. — Matshona Dhliwayo

45. This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down — Sunday Adelaja

46. People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

47. Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

48. As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance. — Neil Degrasse Tyson

49. Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It’s people who haven’t been anywhere, haven’t seen the world. — Tyson Fury

50. The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

Conclusion

Ignorance can be a dangerous thing, but it can also be a powerful tool for personal growth and understanding. We can learn from our mistakes and use our ignorance to become wiser and more enlightened. As Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” So, let us embrace our ignorance and use it to our advantage. Let us strive to be humble and learn from our mistakes, so that we may become the wise and informed individuals that we strive to be.