Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

—Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

—Laurence J. Peter

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself… The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

—Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

—Laurence J. Peter

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

—Laurence J. Peter

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

—John Tillotson

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

—Jeremy Taylor

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

—Jeff Foxworthy

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

—Hugo De Groot