Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

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

Hwang, Brian

5.

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

Hazlitt, William

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Proverb, American

9.

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

10.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

11.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Arabian

16.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

17.

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

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

John Tillotson

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

22.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

24.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

25.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

26.

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

27.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

28.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

31.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

32.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

34.

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

35.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

39.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Mann, Horace

45.

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

Darrow, Clarence

46.

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