Ignorant Quotes - Page 2

• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Teacher, Ignorance

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

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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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• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Ignorance

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

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Ignorance, 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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• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Live Life, Men

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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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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• The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

  Ibn Arabi

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

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• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Mistake, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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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, Way, Shame

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

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• It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

  Don Herold

  Education, Smart, Ignorance

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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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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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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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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• A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

  Anne Hathaway

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Order, Overcoming

  "The American Mercury" Magazine, May 1926.

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• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Class, Dangerous

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Purity And Innocence

  'The Inn Album' (1875) canto 5

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

  Anatole France

  Happiness, Ignorance, Inner Peace

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

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• If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Samurai

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.240, Adams Media

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

  Richard Cecil

  Learning, Firsts, Steps

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• Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

  The New York Times, (p. 23, c.8), July 11, 1935.

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