Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Proverb, Arabian

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Proverb, Haitian

13.

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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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 of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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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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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

21.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

27.

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

Proverb, American

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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

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bob Edwards

33.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hazlitt, William

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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

John Tillotson

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)