Common Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be…

— Jose Rizal

“I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he…

— Kate Horsley

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously…

— Manly Hall

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath…

— Jeremy Taylor

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves,…

— Paul Valery

The extent of a man's ignorance is not measured in what he does not know, but in what he refuses to learn.

— Anonymous

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything…

— Anonymous

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates…

— Anonymous