Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bob Edwards

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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hwang, Brian

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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 never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

John Tillotson

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Peter, Irene

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

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

Confucius

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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.