Ignorance Quotes - Page 11

• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.

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• A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Science

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• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Ignorant, Another Man

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

  Euripides

  Adversity, Ignorant, Literature

  "Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

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• If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Bliss, Lows, Grades

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

  George Eliot

  May, Pills, Harm

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.29

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• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

  George Eliot

  Giving, Range, Probability

  Daniel Deronda II xiii (p. 100)

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• What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

  Henry Ford

  Dark, Evil, Seems

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• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Education, Work

  The Illiterate Digest "Defending My Soup Plate Position" (1924)

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• Your ignorance cramps my conversation

  Bob Hope

  Cramps, Conversation

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Men, Wish

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Atheist, Science

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

  Stephen Fry

  Happiness, Success, People

  "QI: Albania". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

  Amelia Barr

  Silence, Speech, Outraged

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fool, Poor, Wiser

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.15

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• Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

  Shiv Khera

  Ignorant, Way, Shame

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

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• Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

  Bodhidharma

  Stupidity, Engaging

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sound, Depth, Endeavor

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

  Thomas Hood

  Boys, Joy, Heaven

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.179

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• It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

  Enrico Fermi

  Positive, Science, Trying

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• So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

  Sonia Johnson

  Real, Blow, Thinking

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Deeper, Bottom

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.480

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• All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

  e. e. cummings

  Statistics, Knows

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.102, Grove Press

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• The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Whole Family, Begets

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.190

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