Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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Best Quotes about Ignorance

1.

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

Darrow, Clarence

2.

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

Thomas Carlyle

3.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

5.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

6.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

7.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

8.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

9.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

10.

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

11.

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

Confucius

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

14.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

15.

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

Proverb, Haitian

16.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

23.

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

Mann, Horace

24.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

25.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

26.

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

27.

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

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

35.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

38.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Hwang, Brian

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

49.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.