Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

- Hugo De Groot

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

John Tillotson

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Proverb, American

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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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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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Haitian

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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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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

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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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.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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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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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Confucius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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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.