Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

John Tillotson

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

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Peter, Irene

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

Confucius

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

Syrus, Publilius

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

12.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

16.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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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

18.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

19.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

20.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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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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.

23.

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

Hwang, Brian

24.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Thomas Carlyle

30.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Mann, Horace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.