Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Best Quotes about Ignorance

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ling, Nicholas

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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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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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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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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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.

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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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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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 of one's misfortunes is clear gain.