Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Ignorance

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Hazlitt, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

18.

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

Peter, Irene

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Bob Edwards

26.

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

30.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

31.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

32.

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

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

36.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Proverb, Haitian

38.

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

Hwang, Brian

39.

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

Syrus, Publilius

40.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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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 better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

43.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

45.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

46.

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

47.

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

John Tillotson

48.

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

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot