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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
Ignorance Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.
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

2.
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

3.
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

4.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle

5.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot

6.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Clark, Frank A.

7.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ling, Nicholas

8.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Dyer, Wayne

9.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius

10.
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam

11.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome

12.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato

13.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Sir William Osler

14.
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

15.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Bok, Derek

16.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Franklin, Benjamin

18.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

19.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Franklin, Benjamin

20.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

21.
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

22.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

23.
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.

24.
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

25.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Mann, Horace

26.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Wilde, Oscar

27.
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

28.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

29.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

30.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Syrus, Publilius

31.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
King Jr. Martin Luther

32.
Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

33.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

34.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

35.
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot

36.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards

37.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Huxley, Aldous

38.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Proverb

39.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero, Marcus T.

40.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

41.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning

42.
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

43.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Hwang, Brian

44.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson

45.
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

46.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
Proverb, Haitian

48.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Darrow, Clarence

49.
Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Mendelson, Harry

50.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Twain, Mark


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