Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

2.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

3.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

4.

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

5.

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

Galileo Galilei

6.

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

John Tillotson

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

10.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

12.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

13.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

14.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

15.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

19.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

20.

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

21.

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

Peter, Irene

22.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Thomas Carlyle

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

31.

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

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Haitian

37.

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

Darrow, Clarence

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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.

40.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Clark, Frank A.

41.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

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

Mendelson, Harry

43.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Confucius

46.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

47.

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

48.

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