Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

2.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

3.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

4.

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

5.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

6.

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

Thomas Carlyle

7.

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

8.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

John Tillotson

13.

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

14.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

15.

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

16.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

17.

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Confucius

19.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

20.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

22.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Mann, Horace

23.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

24.

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

25.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

28.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

29.

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

Peter, Irene

30.

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

Bob Edwards

31.

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

Proverb, Haitian

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

34.

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

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

37.

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

Hwang, Brian

38.

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