Motivational Quotes

Ignorance

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Ignorance

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Bevin, Ernest

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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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 to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

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

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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome

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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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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 a voluntary misfortune.

Ling, Nicholas

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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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Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Confucius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Haitian

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

John Tillotson

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

Proverb, American

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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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Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hwang, Brian

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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Bok, Derek

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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

Thomas Carlyle

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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