Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Peter, Irene

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Bob Edwards

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Confucius

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mann, Horace

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Confucius

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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