Ignorance Quotes


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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

- Robert Browning

Ignorance never settles a question.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

- Adam Acone

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

- Don Wood
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

- Voltaire
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

- Adina Rosenbaum

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

- Adm James D. Watkins

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

- George Eliot

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

- Adrian Casanova

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

- William Blake

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

It`s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn`t.

- Adam Steadman

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

- Anatole France

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

- Aaron Rouse

An ignorant person is one who doesn`t know what you have just found out.

- Will Rogers

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Aaron Gretsky

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

- Bob Edwards

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

- Adam Coe
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

- Isaac Asimov

Ignorant men don`t know what good they hold in their hands until they`ve flung it away.

- Adrian Miranda

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

- Adrienne Becker

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

- Adam Quinton

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

- Enrico Fermi

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

- Adrian Bradbury

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

- Sydney Smith

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

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.

- Achraf Tadili

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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.

- Albert Einstein

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

- Winston Churchill

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

- Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

- Mark Twain

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

- Benjamin Franklin

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

- Voltaire
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear always springs from ignorance

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

- Thomas Jefferson

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

- Thomas Jefferson

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance

- Herbert Spencer

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

- Albert Camus

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

- William Osler

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

- Ahmed Bedier

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

- Blaise Pascal

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

- Boethius
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

- Brock Blassingame

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one`s ignorance.

- Confucius