Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Proverb, Haitian

10.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

15.

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

Confucius

16.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

17.

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

18.

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

Clark, Frank A.

19.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

20.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Mann, Horace

23.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

24.

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

Thomas Carlyle

25.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Peter, Irene

28.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

29.

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

Darrow, Clarence

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

John Tillotson

32.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Mendelson, Harry

34.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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 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.

38.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam