Top ignorance Quotes Collection

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Image of Ray Bradbury
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of V. S. Naipaul
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
- V. S. Naipaul
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Image of Josh Billings
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
- Josh Billings
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Image of Willis R. Whitney
The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
- Willis R. Whitney
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Image of Frances Wright
The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
- Frances Wright
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Image of Ron Reagan
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
- Ron Reagan
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Image of Philip Wylie
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
- Philip Wylie
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Image of Elizabeth Moon
There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
- Elizabeth Moon
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Image of Elizabeth Moon
I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
- Elizabeth Moon
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Image of John Selden
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
- John Selden
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Image of John Selden
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
- John Selden
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Image of Eric Schlosser
What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.
- Eric Schlosser
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Image of Brandon Sanderson
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.
- Brandon Sanderson
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Image of Donald Miller
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
- Donald Miller
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Image of Elif Safak
Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
- Elif Safak
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Image of Billy Bob Thornton
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
- Billy Bob Thornton
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Image of Jane Rule
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
- Jane Rule
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Image of Benito Mussolini
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
- Benito Mussolini
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Image of Holly Lisle
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
- Holly Lisle
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Image of Fanny Fern
Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.
- Fanny Fern
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Image of John Robbins
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.
- John Robbins
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Image of Martha C. Nussbaum
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
- Martha C. Nussbaum
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Image of Matt Ridley
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.
- Matt Ridley
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Image of Jack Benny
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.
- Jack Benny
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Image of Marvin Minsky
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.
- Marvin Minsky
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Image of Claude Bernard
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
- Claude Bernard
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Image of A.C. Grayling
Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
- A.C. Grayling
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Image of Mencius
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
- Mencius
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Image of Sheri S. Tepper
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
- Sheri S. Tepper
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Image of Robert Wright
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.
- Robert Wright
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Image of Charles Bradlaugh
The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.
- Charles Bradlaugh
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Image of Frederick Soddy
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
- Frederick Soddy
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Image of Ivan Pavlov
Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.
- Ivan Pavlov
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Image of Robert Quillen
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.
- Robert Quillen
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Image of K.J. Parker
It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.
- K.J. Parker
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Image of Marc Bekoff
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
- Marc Bekoff
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Image of Robert Charles Winthrop
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, - all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.
- Robert Charles Winthrop
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Image of Annie Besant
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
- Annie Besant
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Image of Joseph Delaney
The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.
- Joseph Delaney
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Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
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Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
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Image of Surya Das
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.
- Surya Das
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Image of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Image of William Beveridge
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
- William Beveridge
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Image of William Beveridge
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
- William Beveridge
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Image of George Berkeley
Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn the world into a dungeon, and keep mankind for ever in chains and darkness.
- George Berkeley
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Image of Zack de la Rocha
When ignorance reigns, life is lost...
- Zack de la Rocha
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Image of Taslima Nasrin
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.
- Taslima Nasrin
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Image of Robert Sternberg
Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions.
- Robert Sternberg
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Image of Amos Bronson Alcott
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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