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Ignorance

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- Plato
Ignorance Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
Hazlitt, William

2.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Wilde, Oscar

3.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Syrus, Publilius

5.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Clark, Frank A.

6.
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

7.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

8.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards

9.
Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Mendelson, Harry

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

11.
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

12.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero, Marcus T.

13.
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

14.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ling, Nicholas

15.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato

16.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Huxley, Aldous

17.
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

18.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Twain, Mark

19.
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

20.
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

21.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Franklin, Benjamin

22.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Sir William Osler

23.
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

24.
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot

25.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot

27.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

28.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Hwang, Brian

29.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Rogers, Will

31.
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
Proverb, Haitian

32.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Mann, Horace

33.
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

34.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

35.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius

36.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Franklin, Benjamin

37.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
King Jr. Martin Luther

38.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Proverb, Arabian

39.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Bevin, Ernest

40.
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

41.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Dyer, Wayne

42.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle

43.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

44.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Peter, Irene

45.
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam

46.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome

47.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson

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

49.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Hoffer, Eric

50.
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers


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