Ignorance Quotes.
- I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 – 1965), retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
- A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Anatole France (1844 – 1924)
- Ignorance never settles a question.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881), Sybil, 1845
- Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959)
- A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
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Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)
- Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
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- It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
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Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954)
- I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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George Eliot (1819 – 1880)
- It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
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Homer Hickam, The Coalwood Way
- Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
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Hugo De Groot (1583 – 1645)
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992)
- My whole career can be summed up with ‘Ignorance is bliss.’ When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
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- 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.
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Jeremy Taylor (1613 – 1667)
- Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
- Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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John Tillotson (1630 – 1694)
- Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1988)
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
- Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
- 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.
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Maya Angelou (1928 – )
- It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
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Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Plato (427 BC – 347 BC)
- Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
- Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)
- Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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Saadi (1184 – 1291)
- It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Saint Jerome (374 AD – 419 AD)
- The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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- Sir William Osler (1849 – 1919)
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