Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Ignorance

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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

Mann, Horace

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

John Tillotson

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

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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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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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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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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 innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Confucius

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Twain, Mark

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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hwang, Brian

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

Proverb, Haitian

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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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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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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

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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 worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb