Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Proverb, Haitian

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Maya Angelou

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Susan Sontag

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Clark, Frank A.

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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Paley, William

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

Proverb, American

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Huxley, Aldous

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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Confucius

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

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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

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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Proverb, Arabian

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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

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Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

Mendelson, Harry

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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

Darrow, Clarence

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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

Jesenska, Milena

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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Hoffer, Eric

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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Syrus, Publilius

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.