Ignorance Quotes
2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors
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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
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Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.
— Wes Fesler
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Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
— Wes Fesler
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One can never win an argument with ignorance.
— Wes Fesler
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Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
— Richard P. Feynman
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
— Heraclitus
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
— Heraclitus
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
— Samuel Johnson
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
— Mark Twain
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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
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To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
— James Bryce
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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
— Mark Twain
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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
— Mark Twain
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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
— Mark Twain
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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
— Mark Twain
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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
— Mark Twain
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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
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We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.
— Henry Fairlie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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