Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo De Groot

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hwang, Brian

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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.

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