Ignorance Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Knowing Knowing something Not knowing
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Ignorance" is NOT not knowing the facts, it's not willing to know when the fact are shown to you.” — Maria Anna van Driel Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain 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
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain 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,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
