Ignorance Quotes - Page 10

• Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dominion, Absurdity

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pure

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

  Homer Hickam

  Homer Hickam (2007). “The Coalwood Way: A Memoir”, p.9, Island Books

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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Empathy, Apathy, Sloppiness

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• Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

  Anatole France

  Men, Conquer The World, Understanding

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• There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Two, Goal, Life Is

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ignorant

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

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• Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Difficulty, Enterprise

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.34, Race Point Publishing

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• Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

  Tryon Edwards

  Names, Stupidity, Would Be

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Mind

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• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Wisdom, Purity And Innocence, Lucky Charms

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

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• Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stupid, Vain, Stupid People

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.1912, Delphi Classics

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

  Anatole France

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Intellectual

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: The opinions of Jérôme Coignard”

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• True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Funny, Education, Learning

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• It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

  George Eliot

  Fighting, Fog, Useless

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Interesting, Market Risk

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• The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Men, Stupidity, Limits

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Ignorant, Half, Matter

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

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• Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

  Thomas Gray

  Inspirational, Wise, Eton

  "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 99 (1747)

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• In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Astonishment, Causes, Events

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.220, London : H.G. Bohn

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• He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilty, Crime, Produce

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.26

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• Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Kids, Parenting

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 08, 2011

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