Being Ignorant Quotes

• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ignorance

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

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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  Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Stupid, School

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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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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• It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

  William Gibbs McAdoo

  Ignorance, Humility, Men

  William Gibbs McAdoo (1971). “Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

  Sydney Smith

  Courage, Ignorance, Order

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.198

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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

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Way

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

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• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Failure

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Half

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 865, 1856.

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• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

  Confucius

  Stars, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

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

  Voltaire

  Learning, Ignorance, Stupid People

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• There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Perfection, Ignorant

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

  Scott Adams

  Knowledge, Thinking, Ideas

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• We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Ignorance, Order

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• Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

  Socrates

  Running, Truth, Ignorance

  Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

  Maya Angelou

  School, Ignorant, Gone

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.

  Zeena Schreck

  Ignorance, People, Ignorant

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• I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.

  Tre Cool

  Running, Kings, Thinking

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• When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

  Christopher Paolini

  Hate, Ignorant, Pieces

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1719, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Tired, Exercise, Yale

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