Ignorance Quotes - Page 3

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

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• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Fear, Spring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Knowledge

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• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

  Voltaire

  Learning, Stupid People, Funny Sarcastic

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• As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.

  Roger McDonald

  Agency, Mind, World

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• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

  Lord Acton

  Simple, Two, Simplicity

  "Lord Acton and his Circle". Book by Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet, 1906.

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• It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

  James A. Baldwin

  Justice, Enemy, Cases

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• 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

  Mistake, Self, Deception

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

  Cleanthes

  Men, Ignorant, Beast

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  There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Xenophobia, Business, Stupidity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Monsters, Womb

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• 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

  Knowing, Understanding, Society

  Mencius (1942). “The Book of Mencius: (abridged)”

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• The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Voting, Democracy

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• 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

  Kings, School, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Thinking, Ego

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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

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• Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Stupidity, Political, Stupidity And Ignorance

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• By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humility

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

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• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Patience, Stupid, Proud

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

  Gustave Flaubert

  History, Literature, Causes

  Letter to George Sand, September 8, 1871.

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  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

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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