Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Peter, Irene

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

2.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

3.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Clark, Frank A.

4.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

5.

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

Hwang, Brian

6.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

7.

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

Thomas Carlyle

8.

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

9.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

11.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

12.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

13.

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

Confucius

14.

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

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

Peter, Irene

16.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

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

Proverb, Haitian

20.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

21.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

22.

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

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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.

28.

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

John Tillotson

29.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

30.

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

31.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

32.

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

33.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

34.

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

Confucius

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

38.

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

39.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

40.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

41.

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

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

44.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

45.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

46.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

Mann, Horace

47.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Galileo Galilei