Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

Syrus, Publilius

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Mendelson, Harry

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Confucius

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

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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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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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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hwang, Brian

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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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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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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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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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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

John Tillotson

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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Proverb, American

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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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