Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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.

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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Hwang, Brian

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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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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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.