What is ignorance?

Ignorance

Ignorance is a state of being uninformed (lack of knowledge). The word ignorant is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware and is often used as an insult to describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard important information or facts. Ignoramus is commonly used in the US, the UK, and Ireland as a term for someone who is willfully ignorant.

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Famous quotes containing the word ignorance:

    Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)