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40 Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance Quotes

 


 

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

-Mark Twain

 


 

2. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

-George Orwell

 


 

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

-Benjamin Franklin

 


 

4. “Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 


 

5. “Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.”

-Richard Dawkins

 


 

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

-Oscar Wilde

 


 

7. “Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

-Dalai Lama

 


 

8. “I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”

-Cicero

 


 

9. “Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”

-George Chapman

 


 

10. “The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”

-John F. Kennedy

 


 

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

-Confucius

 


 

12. “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

-Plato

 


 

13. “In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.”

-Theodore Dreiser

 


 

14. “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

-William Shakespeare

 


 

15. “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”

-Robert Quillen

 


 

16. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

-Jeff Rich

 


 

17. “Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.”

-David Gross

 


 

18. “One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset.”

-Wallace Stevens

 


 

19. “His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

-Arthur Conan Doyle

 


 

20. “Ignorance is the mother of all evils.”

-Francois Rabelais

 


 

21. “Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”

-Publilius Syrus

 


 

22. “To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.”

-Ann Plato

 


 

23. “Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”

-Aldous Huxley

 


 

24. “Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.”

-Euripides

 


 

25. “The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”

-Herodotus

 


 

26. “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

-Socrates

 


 

27. “One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”

-Robert Staughton Lynd

 


 

28. “Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.”

-James Anthony Froude

 


 

29. “Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.”

-Wes Fessler

 


 

30. “Ignorance never settles a question.”

-Benjamin Disraeli

 


 

31. “To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.”

-John Ruskin

 


 

32. “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”

-Emma Goldman

 


 

33. “There is no slavery but ignorance.”

-Robert Green Ingersoll

 


 

34. “It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”

-Sting

 


 

35. “To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”

-Jeremy Taylor

 


 

36. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”

-Wayne Dyer

 


 

37. “The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

 


 

38. “The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

-Elbert Hubbard

 


 

39. “The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.”

-Max Heindel

 


 

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

-Martin Luther King, Jr.