Ignorance Quotes

• Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.

  Wiley Miller

  Stupid, Choices, Conditions

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  The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Family

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• No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Broke

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• Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.

  Miriam

  Stupid, Forever

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• Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Army, Males, Militarism

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

  James Madison

  Religious Truth, Corruption, Founding Fathers Religion

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.90, University of Virginia Press

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• Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Distrust, Mutual

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.13, Penguin

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• War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, War, Despair

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Perfect, Transition, Quiet

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.217

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• Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

  Timothy Long

  Fear, Keys, Roots

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• Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Knowledge, Limits

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

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• Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

  Nikola Tesla

  Views, Appreciate, Important

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

  Frances Wright

  Generations, Next

  Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.204

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• People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  People, Knows

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• The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Knows

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ignorant, Vulgar

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1818). “Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. [by M. Smirke].”, p.184

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• Stupidity,--unconscious ignorance.

  Josh Billings

  Stupidity, Unconscious

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• If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Blessed, Moon

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

  Robert A. Burton

  Mother, Religion, Devotion

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• I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

  David Crosby

  Greed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

  Donald Miller

  Choices, Age, Information

  "Truth in Pop Art: An Interview with Donny Miller". Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, filmint.nu. March 5, 2013.

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• it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

  Lionel Shriver

  Ignorant, Difficult, Impress

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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• Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Mean, Fifty, Cents

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• Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent.

  Patricia King

  Stupidity, Permanent, Temporary

  Patricia King (1992). “Never work for a jerk!”

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• Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Mother, Suspicion

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