Quotes about ignorance




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

Alcott, Amos Bronson on ignorance
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"There's a sucker born every minute."

Barnum, P.T. on ignorance    Share

"Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat."

Bevin, Ernest on ignorance
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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 on ignorance
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

Bok, Derek on ignorance
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"Ignorance is not innocence, but sin."

Browning, Robert on ignorance    Share

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

Carlyle, Thomas on ignorance    Share

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

Cicero, Marcus T. on ignorance
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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. on ignorance    Share

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

Confucius on ignorance
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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 on ignorance    Share

"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Dyer, Wayne on ignorance
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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Euripides on ignorance    Share

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

France, Anatole on ignorance    Share

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

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance    Share

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

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance
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"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on ignorance
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."

Gray, Thomas on ignorance    Share

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

Hazlitt, William on ignorance    Share

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

Hoffer, Eric on ignorance    Share

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

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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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 on ignorance
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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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 on ignorance
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune."

Ling, Nicholas on ignorance    Share

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

Mann, Horace on ignorance
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"Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are."

Mendelson, Harry on ignorance    Share

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Osler, Sir William on ignorance
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"Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing."

Peter, Irene on ignorance    Share

"Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant."

Proverb on ignorance
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"What you don't know can't hurt you ."

Proverb on ignorance    Share

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

Proverb, American on ignorance    Share

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

Proverb, Arabian on ignorance
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