Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

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

Galileo Galilei

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

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

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

Confucius

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Mann, Horace

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

Confucius

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Haitian

19.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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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.

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

Hwang, Brian

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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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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

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

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

John Tillotson

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus