Quotes about ignorance

"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   

"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   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on ignorance   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

France, Anatole on ignorance   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on ignorance   

"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   

"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   

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

Hoffer, Eric on ignorance   

"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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"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 on ignorance   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

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

Proverb, American on ignorance   

"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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