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Quotes about Ignorance


...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Thomas Paine

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Daniel C. Gelman

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Robert G. Ingersoll

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Albert Socrates

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Joan Bokonon

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Daniel C. Gelman

For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine In his well-turned and true-filed lines; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.

Ben Jonson

Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.

J. B. Valery

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Robert Browning

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' (on a former player)

Frank Layden

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P.J. O'Rourke

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi or •Donald Kendall The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

George S. Patton

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Mark Twain

Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.

Matt Marty

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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