| 92 Ignorance Quotes
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus Quotes |
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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.”
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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”
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
Socrates Quotes |
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“By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn”
Proverb Quotes |
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“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes |
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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today”
Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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“Your ignorance cramps my conversation”
Bob Hope Quotes |
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“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes |
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“Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience”
Spanish Proverb Quotes |
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“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes |
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“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.”
James Beattie Quotes Source: The Minstrel (bk. II, st. 30)
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“For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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“The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras
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“In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignoratio in re nova mirationem facit.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Divinatione (II, 22)
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“Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita
vexatur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (I, 13)
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“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusc. Quoest. (I, 25, 60)
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“Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it
through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into
day through twilight.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Essay (XVI)
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“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: in a speech in House of Commons
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“Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had
only one idea, and that was wrong.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: Sybil (bk. IV, ch. V)
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“For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: The Maiden Queen (act I, sc. 2)
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“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: The Maiden Queen (act I, sc. 2)
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“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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“All our ignorance brings us closer to death.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. II, ch. XIII)
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