43 Ignorance Quotes

43 Ignorance Quotes

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    Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Stephen Covey

  1. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Stephen Covey
    Words of Encouragement
  2. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

  3. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
    Knowledge
  4. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

  5. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.Mark Twain
    Funny
  6. Ignorance is always afraid of change. Jawaharlal Nehru

  7. Ignorance is always afraid of change.Jawaharlal Nehru
    Quotes about Change
  8. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius

  9. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius
    Inspirational Quotes
  10. During the day, you can go from task to task, to meet each colleague and each person no matter how frustrating without losing your temper, or showing frustration by being arrogant or ignorant. After all, it is only one day. Byron Pulsifer, Happiness Is A Choice
    Frustration
  11. Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution. American Proverb
    Quote of The Day
  12. It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
    Famous
  13. Ignorance breeds fear. Knowledge drives those fears out.M. K. Soni
    Fear
  14. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. Abigail Buren
    Learning
  15. Let the trails that bore my ancestors blood and tears, and the chains that bound their freedom serve as reminders to all, of our hate and savagery against one another, and ensure its trust that we as a people choose never to repeat such ignorance.Jacqualine Williams Rippy
    Choices
  16. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.Martin Luther King Jr
    Graduation
  17. The person who admits ignorance shows it once; the one who tries to hide it shows it often.Japanese Proverb
    Proverbs
  18. My prayer is that the all-wise God will give this feeble, ignorant child the wisdom to see his purposes, to desire his will over my own, to approach trials saying, ‘Lord, teach me.’ I have no doubt – NO doubt – that in time, He will do exactly that. Camille Kendall, Wish You Were Here
    God
  19. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces. Dalai Lama
    Feeling
  20. The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Kahlil Gibran
    Grief
  21. We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.Maya Angelou
    Attitude
  22. Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli

  23. Ignorance never settles a question.Benjamin Disraeli
    Question
  24. The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning. Charles Tremper
    Quotes about Taking Risks
  25. To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. Seneca
    Nature
  26. Love that ignores acts of disobedience is not love but is ignorance or uncaring.Catherine Pulsifer, Forever Young
    Love
  27. The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill
    Truth
  28. The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. Og Mandino, The Choice
    Failure
  29. Unbelievers are people who are ignorant of the Christian faith. Those who are willing to examine the evidence of the biblical documents and thus cease to be ignorant usually cease to be unbelievers. Michael Griffiths, God is Great God is God, I’d Believe Him If I Could
  30. A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd. Chinese Proverb
    Wise
  31. No matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius
    Time
  32. We dare you to accept the premise: truth will be truth regardless of any person�s belief, ignorance, negligence, or misunderstanding, or the failure of scientific proof. W. Clement Stone, The Other Side of Mind
    Dare
  33. Compassion motivates us to address injustice; if we need to take action, we do it with compassion and wisdom, not anger or ignorance. Stephanie Gunning, Audacious Creativity
    Compassion
  34. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Natalie Goldberg
    Stress
  35. The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.George Eliot
    Life Quotes
  36. Ignorance should not be tolerated. It isn’t worthy of our understanding or sympathy. Ethan Hunter, Maya Angelou: 24 Powerful Lessons And Insights From Maya Angelou
    Tolerance
  37. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
    Listening
  38. How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. John Abbott
    Motivational
  39. If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. Victor Cousin
    If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.Victor Cousin
    Happy
  40. Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.Confucius
    Night
  41. This is the beauty of meditation. The superpower. The judo move. What you see clearly cannot drive you. Ignorance is not bliss.Dan Harris, Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics
    Meditation Quotes
  42. When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance.Confucius, The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches
    Philosophy Quotes
  43. Turn introvert. Remove your ignorance. Unfold your Self. You gain real and enduring bliss.Nancy Reeves, Spirituality for Extroverts
    Introvert Quotes
  44. He is, instead, attempting to find a complete solitude, a sort of ignorant bliss.Jeff Sellars, Light Shining in a Dark Place
    Solitude Quotes
  45. Many Christians know very well what the arguments are against faith. It’s not that we’re ignorant of them – it’s simply that we don’t think they stand up all that well. Dave Gipson, Your Brain’s Too Small for God
    Faith
  46. Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow.Lily Pincus
    Death
  47. There are none so blind as those who will not see and there are none so ignorant as those who don’t have the perseverance to learn. Ian Gibbs, The Sorites Principle
    Perseverance
  48. There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Wishes

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