Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Best Quotes about Ignorance

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Bob Edwards

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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

Confucius

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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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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, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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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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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

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hwang, Brian

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

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peter, Irene

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

John Tillotson

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