Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

John Tillotson

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mann, Horace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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

Bob Edwards

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Peter, Irene

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.