Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ignorance

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Confucius

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Haitian

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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Hwang, Brian

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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

33.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Confucius

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

John Tillotson

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest