Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about 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 is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Proverb, Haitian

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

12.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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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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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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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Confucius

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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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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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

Peter, Irene

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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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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Huxley, Aldous

28.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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

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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

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

John Tillotson

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Twain, Mark

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin