Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

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.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Galileo Galilei

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hwang, Brian

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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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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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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Confucius

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Peter, Irene

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

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Confucius

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

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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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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, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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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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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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.