Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

- Robert Browning

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

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

Mann, Horace

2.

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

3.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

4.

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

Darrow, Clarence

5.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

6.

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

Peter, Irene

7.

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

Confucius

8.

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

Galileo Galilei

9.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

10.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

13.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

14.

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

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Hwang, Brian

16.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Bob Edwards

20.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

21.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

25.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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 is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

29.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

30.

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

31.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli