Ignorance Quote by Richard Whately Download Open image ““He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.”” — Richard Whately ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Knowledge
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Only a fool chooses to live in ignorance when knowledge is so easily obtained.” — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don’t have, can be,” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A man remains knowing as long as he searches for knowledge and continues to study. When he thinks he knows, he has become ignorant.” — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.” — Kim Stanley Robinson 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
“He that did not know and did not know that he did not know will never know” — Debbiedebo Copy Share Image
“...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Ignorance can stifle learning, especially if the ignorant person believes that he or she is not ignorant.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately 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
