Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

2.

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

3.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

5.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

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

Hoffer, Eric

7.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

8.

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

Hazlitt, William

9.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

12.

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

Thomas Carlyle

13.

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

14.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

18.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

19.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

Hwang, Brian

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

28.

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

Galileo Galilei

29.

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

30.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

32.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Clark, Frank A.

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

35.

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

36.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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.

39.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

40.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

41.

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

John Tillotson

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Huxley, Aldous

46.

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

47.

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

Mann, Horace

48.

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

Confucius

49.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

50.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.