Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Bob Edwards

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

John Tillotson

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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.

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

Mendelson, Harry

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

Darrow, Clarence

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Hazlitt, William

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Huxley, Aldous

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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 gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, American

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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Dane, Frank

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Peter, Irene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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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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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.

Hwang, Brian

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.