Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Mann, Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peter, Irene

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

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Darrow, Clarence

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Proverb, Haitian

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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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Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

Mendelson, Harry

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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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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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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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

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Hwang, Brian

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

John Tillotson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bob Edwards

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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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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 gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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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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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Confucius

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

Syrus, Publilius

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