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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Ignorance

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
There is no darkness, but ignorance.
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
There's a sucker born every minute.
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
What you don't know can't hurt you .
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it.

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