Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

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

2.

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

3.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

4.

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

Proverb, Arabian

5.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

7.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

8.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

9.

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

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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.

12.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

13.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

14.

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

Mendelson, Harry

15.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

16.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

17.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

21.

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

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Hwang, Brian

24.

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

25.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

26.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

27.

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

28.

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

Syrus, Publilius

29.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

32.

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

John Tillotson

33.

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

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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