Best Quotes about Ignorance
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
Hazlitt, William
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Wilde, Oscar
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Franklin, Benjamin
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
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
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Syrus, Publilius
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake
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
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Franklin, Benjamin
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.
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
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Darrow, Clarence
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
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin
Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Bevin, Ernest
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
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
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Peter, Irene
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius
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
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Proverb
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
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Sir William Osler
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam
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
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Hwang, Brian
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Clark, Frank A.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Carlyle, Thomas
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
King Jr. Martin Luther
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.
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
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasgow, Arnold H.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Mann, Horace
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ling, Nicholas
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero, Marcus T.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Twain, Mark
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
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