Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

- Bevin, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, American

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Galileo Galilei

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

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mendelson, Harry

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Proverb, Haitian

15.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Confucius

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

John Tillotson

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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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, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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 is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

24.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

25.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

27.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

28.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

30.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

31.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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.

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

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

Hazlitt, William