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Ignorance

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
Ignorance Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.
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

2.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome

3.
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam

4.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

5.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Syrus, Publilius

6.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Proverb, Arabian

7.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning

9.
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.

10.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

11.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Peter, Irene

12.
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

13.
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot

14.
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
Proverb, Haitian

15.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius

16.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Twain, Mark

17.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Franklin, Benjamin

18.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Bok, Derek

19.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Wilde, Oscar

20.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Rogers, Will

21.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

22.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

23.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Sir William Osler

24.
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

25.
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

26.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

27.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato

28.
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

29.
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
Proverb, American

30.
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

31.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake

32.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter

33.
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

34.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

35.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

36.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
King Jr. Martin Luther

37.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Franklin, Benjamin

38.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Darrow, Clarence

39.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Dyer, Wayne

40.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Huxley, Aldous

41.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

42.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Hoffer, Eric

43.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle

44.
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

45.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Hwang, Brian

46.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

47.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

48.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius

49.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards

50.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Proverb


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