Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Confucius

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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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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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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

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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, American

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hwang, Brian

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Proverb, Haitian

34.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Peter, Irene

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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

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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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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

John Tillotson

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Confucius

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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