Ignorance Quotes

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival. — Wes Fesler
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. — Wes Fesler
One can never win an argument with ignorance. — Wes Fesler
Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. — Richard P. Feynman
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep. — Heraclitus
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know. — Heraclitus
Art hath an enemy called ignorance. — Samuel Johnson
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so. — Mark Twain
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is… — Mencius
To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. — James Bryce
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch. — Mark Twain
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain
...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins! — Mark Twain
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced. — Mark Twain
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God. — Mark Twain
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of… — Karl Popper
We are at full stop. We think we have arrived. — Henry Fairlie
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least,… — George Porter
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend… — Roger McDonald
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Unknown Author

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