Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Bok, Derek

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

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

Mann, Horace

2.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

3.

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

4.

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

Hazlitt, William

5.

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

Hoffer, Eric

6.

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

7.

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

Peter, Irene

8.

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

Hwang, Brian

9.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

10.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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.

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

13.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

14.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

15.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

16.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

17.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

18.

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

Mendelson, Harry

19.

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

20.

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

Galileo Galilei

21.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

24.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

25.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Darrow, Clarence

32.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

33.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

34.

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