Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

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Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

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

Proverb, Haitian

2.

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

Confucius

3.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

4.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

5.

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

Hoffer, Eric

6.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

7.

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

8.

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

Bob Edwards

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

14.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

16.

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

17.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Thomas Carlyle

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

25.

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

Confucius

26.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

27.

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

28.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

29.

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

John Tillotson

35.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

36.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

44.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

45.

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

Hwang, Brian

46.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

47.

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

Darrow, Clarence

48.

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

Peter, Irene

49.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

50.

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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