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Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Ignorance

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The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance, Expensive

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Courier Corporation

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance, Tyranny Founding Fathers, Tyranny

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Horse, Ignorance
Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin
Daughter, Ignorance, Liberty
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Ignorance, People
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.366

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance, Simplicity, Ornaments
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Benjamin Franklin
Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge
Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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