50 Ignorance Quotes – Why Ignorance Is NOT Bliss!
Looking for the best ignorance quotes? These 50 epic ignorance quotes will show you what true ignorance is all about.
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So without further ado, here are the 50 ignorance quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
IGNORANCE QUOTES
1 – You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison
2 – There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3 – Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
4 – They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett
5 – Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin
6 – Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Stephen Covey
7- If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
8 – Acts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
9 – How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. John Abbott
10 – Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius
IGNORANCE QUOTES
11 – Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Max Ehrmann
12 – Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. Jim Rohn
13 – Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction. Dale Carnegie
14 – Stupidity is a talent for misconception. Edgar Allan Poe
15 – It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
16 – To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. Seneca
17- When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance.Confucius
18 – The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. Wayne W. Dyer
19 – In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Donald Miller
20 – Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru
IGNORANCE QUOTES
21 – The person who admits ignorance shows it once; the one who tries to hide it shows it often.Japanese Proverb
22 – Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow. Lily Pincus
23 – There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
24 – A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd. Chinese Proverb
25 – Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
26 – Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato
27- True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. Abigail Buren
28 – The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. Jim Rohn
29 – It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell
30 – You have been a prisoner of a little pond. I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Rumi
IGNORANCE QUOTES
31 – Ignorance breeds fear. Knowledge drives those fears out.M. K. Soni
32 – Ignorance should not be tolerated. It isn’t worthy of our understanding or sympathy. Maya Angelou
33 – The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. Og Mandino
34 – Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates
35 – Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin
36 – No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces. Dalai Lama
37- Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli
38 – Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure. Neil deGrasse Tyson
39 – Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
40 – Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr.
IGNORANCE QUOTES
41 – No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius
42 – Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. Robert T. Kiyosaki
43 – Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. Kurt Vonnegut
44 – The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle. Rumi
45 – The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
46 -Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. Dalai Lama XIV
47- We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.Maya Angelou
48 – Education is a system of imposed ignorance. Noam Chomsky
49 – People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action. Steve Maraboli,
50 – Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know. Eoin Colfer
BONUS: Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance. Nikola Tesla
BONUS: Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. James Allen
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Frances Vidakovic
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