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Ignorance

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Ignorance Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson

2.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Bok, Derek

3.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

4.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

5.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

6.
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

7.
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

8.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle

9.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Clark, Frank A.

10.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
King Jr. Martin Luther

11.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Peter, Irene

12.
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

13.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
Hazlitt, William

14.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake

15.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Proverb

16.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius

17.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

19.
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot

20.
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.

21.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

22.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Darrow, Clarence

23.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Franklin, Benjamin

24.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Wilde, Oscar

25.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

26.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Carlyle, Thomas

27.
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

28.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

29.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning

30.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome

36.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.
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

38.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

39.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Rogers, Will

40.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato

41.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Bevin, Ernest

42.
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

43.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Proverb, Arabian

44.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Twain, Mark

45.
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

46.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

47.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Hwang, Brian

48.
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam

49.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Hoffer, Eric

50.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Alcott, Amos Bronson


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