Ignorance Quote by John Gay Download Open image “By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least” — John Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Pride
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Most ignorance is the direct result of apathy; people don't know because they don't care to know. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning. — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance. — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Arrogance is Bliss, Ignorance is merely what people have who fail to recognise how awesome I am. — Arron Retsehcnam Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. — John Gay Copy Share Image
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. — John Gay Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too… — John Gay Copy Share Image
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend… — John Gay Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is… — Anonymous Copy Share
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.” — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you. Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you. Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance. Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
