Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

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 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

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

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

Twain, Mark

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hwang, Brian

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

John Tillotson

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Galileo Galilei

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

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

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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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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.