Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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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Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Confucius

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

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mendelson, Harry

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

Hwang, Brian

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

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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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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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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Haitian

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, American

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Franklin, Benjamin

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