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The purest form of insanity is to leave everything the same and at the same time hope that things will change. (Albert Einstein)
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. ~ Wayne Dyer
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.. – Jeff Rich
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. – Walter Cronkite
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. – Stephen Covey
Ignorant Quotes
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. – Complete Essays
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it’s at the core of all our problems. – Naomi Judd
A person hears only what they understand. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk. ~ Barack Obama
To know what you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. – Lao Tzu
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years – Mark Twain
Ignorance breeds fear. Knowledge drives those fears out. – M. K. Soni
A person hears only what they understand. Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. ~ Dalai Lama
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.― George Orwell, 1984
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.. – Isaac Asimov
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. ― Daniel J. Boorstin
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole France)
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.. – James Madison
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.
Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. – Thomas Paine
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Socrates)
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.. – Thomas Gray
Ignorance is always afraid of change. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. – Wes Fessler
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. (Oscar Wilde)
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.. – Robert Quillen
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. – Harlan Ellison
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. – Confucius
Even the boards that some people wear in front of their heads can mean the world. (Werner Finck)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Living is easy with eyes closed – John Lennon
During the day, you can go from task to task, to meet each colleague and each person no matter how frustrating without losing your temper or showing frustration by being arrogant or ignorant. After all, it is only one day. Byron Pulsifer, Happiness Is A Choice
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. – Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without a moon or star. – Confucius
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance. (Nikola Tesla)
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.. – Frederick Douglass
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. – G.K. Chesterton
Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution. American Proverb
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. – G.K. Chesterton
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never heard of. – Ralph B. Perry
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Mark Twain)
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.. – Mark Twain
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ― Robert Orben
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.― Isaac Asimov
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.. – Bill Richardson
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. – William Shakespeare
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. (Aldous Huxley)
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. – James Anthony Froude
All things truly wicked start from innocence. – Ernest Hemingway
Let the trials that bore my ancestor’s blood and tears, and the chains that bound their freedom serve as reminders to all, of our hate and savagery against one another, and ensure its trust that we as a people choose never to repeat such ignorance. Jacqueline Williams Rippy
The truest characteristics of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and annoyance. – Samuel Butler
There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don’t fit into their box are weird. But I’ll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.― C. JoyBell C.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration. – George Chapman
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. – James Baldwin
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. – Horace Mann
It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Ignorance is the root and the stem of every evil. ~ Plato
Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas the ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, and familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin
The person who admits ignorance shows it once; the one who tries to hide it shows it often. Japanese Proverb
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. – Mahatma Gandhi
My prayer is that the all-wise God will give this feeble, ignorant child the wisdom to see his purposes, to desire his will over my own, to approach trials saying, ‘Lord, teach me.’ I have no doubt – NO doubt – that in time, He will do exactly that. Camille Kendall, Wish You Were Here
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied by ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. – Plato
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Kahlil Gibran
It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. ~ W. Clement Stone
Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. – Victor Cousin
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, and even alone in genders. Maya Angelou
The truth will always be the truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. – W. Clement Stone
It takes a very long time to become young.― Pablo Picasso
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow
More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied without understanding.- The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~ Winston Churchill
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