Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

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

Hazlitt, William

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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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 of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Hwang, Brian

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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.

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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 never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

John Tillotson

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Mendelson, Harry

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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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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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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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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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