Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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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

2.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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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

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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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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

6.

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

7.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

9.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

10.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

17.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Peter

21.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sir William Osler

22.

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

25.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

26.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

27.

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

28.

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

Peter, Irene

29.

Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.

Rogers, Will

30.

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

Confucius

31.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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

Galileo Galilei

33.

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

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Mendelson, Harry

36.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Proverb, American

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

44.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

47.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

48.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Robert Browning

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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.