Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

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

2.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

3.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

4.

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

Thomas Carlyle

5.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

6.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

8.

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

9.

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

Mendelson, Harry

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

12.

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

13.

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

Peter, Irene

14.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

15.

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

Galileo Galilei

16.

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

17.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

18.

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

19.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

20.

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.

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

24.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

25.

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

26.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

29.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

30.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

31.

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

Huxley, Aldous

32.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

36.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

37.

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