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Ignorance

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
- Syrus, Publilius
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Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Bok, Derek

2.
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli

3.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.

4.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Franklin, Benjamin

5.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Hwang, Brian

6.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Rogers, Will

7.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

8.
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

9.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot

10.
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

11.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Sir William Osler

12.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13.
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.
Proverb, American

14.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

15.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning

16.
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

17.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
Confucius

18.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Syrus, Publilius

19.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

20.
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

21.
Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

22.
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

23.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

24.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
William Blake

26.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Glasgow, Arnold H.

27.
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

28.
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

29.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

30.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Peter, Irene

31.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ling, Nicholas

32.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Bevin, Ernest

33.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Proverb

34.
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

35.
It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam

36.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Carlyle, Thomas

37.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Darrow, Clarence

38.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Clark, Frank A.

39.
Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Mendelson, Harry

40.
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter

41.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Hoffer, Eric

43.
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
Proverb, Haitian

44.
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

45.
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

46.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
Proverb, Arabian

47.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

48.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

49.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Huxley, Aldous

50.
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Hugo De Groot


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