Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyer, Wayne

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Thomas Carlyle

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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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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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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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 no excuse, it's the real thing.

Peter, Irene

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Proverb, Haitian

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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

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bob Edwards

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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

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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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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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mendelson, Harry

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Confucius

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

Confucius

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