Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

- William Blake

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Proverb, Haitian

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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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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 more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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

Peter, Irene

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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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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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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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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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.