Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

2.

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

Confucius

3.

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

4.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

5.

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

Peter, Irene

6.

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

Twain, Mark

7.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

10.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

13.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

14.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Galileo Galilei

23.

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

Hwang, Brian

24.

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

Syrus, Publilius

25.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Clark, Frank A.

26.

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

John Tillotson

27.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

28.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

31.

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.

32.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

33.

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

Mendelson, Harry

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

37.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

38.

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

39.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

40.

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

Thomas Carlyle

41.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

42.

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

43.

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

Huxley, Aldous

44.

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

45.

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

Darrow, Clarence

46.

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

Bob Edwards

47.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

48.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

49.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

50.

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