Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

- Ling, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Galileo Galilei

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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.

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Hwang, Brian

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

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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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 gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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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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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 never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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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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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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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.