Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Darrow, Clarence

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Proverb, American

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Confucius

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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 never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

John Tillotson

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Twain, Mark

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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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 gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Mann, Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

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

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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.