Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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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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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

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

Confucius

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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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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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

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

Proverb, American

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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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.

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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

40.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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