Ignorance Quotes - Page 6

• Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Knowledge, Politics

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.276, e-artnow

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• Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Knows

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• Ignorance is always afraid of change.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Business, Reality, Stupidity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

  Hugo Grotius

  Certain, Subjects

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Science

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Journey, Self

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• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Purity And Innocence, Ignorant

  'The Inn Album' (1875) canto 5

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  It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Knowledge, Science, Literature

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

  Marco Pierre White

  Reputation, Exaggeration, Products

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Confidence, Congratulations

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Butterfly, Tragedy

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ignorant, Torment

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• Ignorance
  Protects itself,
  And protected,
  Ignorance grows.

  Octavia Butler

  Quails, Protect, Grows

  Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Careers, Worry, Bliss

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• Ignorance is never better than knowledge

  Enrico Fermi

  Knowledge, Knowledge And Ignorance

  Quoted in Laura Fermi Atoms in the Family (1954).

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• The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Wisdom, Soulmate

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• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

  Will Rogers

  Hilarious, Paper, Alibis

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Anger, Views, Greed

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• What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Feelings, May

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.177

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• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Forgiveness, Believe, Redemption

  Time magazine, November 01, 1963.

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

  Norm MacDonald

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