Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

- George Eliot

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Huxley, Aldous

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Mignon McLaughlin

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, American

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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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 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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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Hwang, Brian

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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

27.

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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Confucius

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Mendelson, Harry

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

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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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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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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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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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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

John Tillotson

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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 of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Hoffer, Eric