Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Huxley, Aldous

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Syrus, Publilius

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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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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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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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Mendelson, Harry

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

John Tillotson

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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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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Peter, Irene

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

Confucius

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Proverb, Haitian

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.