Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Bob Edwards

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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

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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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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

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Haitian

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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

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Confucius

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Proverb, American

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Mann, Horace

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

Peter, Irene

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.