Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

- Saint Jerome

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Thomas Carlyle

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

12.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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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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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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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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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

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

Confucius

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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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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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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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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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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Tillotson

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Bob Edwards

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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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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

48.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.