Ignorance Quotes

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Famous Quotes & Quotations About Ignorance:

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
~ Aldous Huxley.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
~ Nicholas Ling.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
~ Thucydides.

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
~ Oscar Wilde.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
~ Eric Hoffer.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand,
Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
~ Neal Peart, Witch Hunt.

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.(The ignorant man) 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.
~ Milena Jesenska.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
~ Norman Juster.

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.
~ Arabian Proverb.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
~ Anatole France.

Ignorance is like the itch - the less you have of it the better off you are.
~ Harry Mendelson.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
~ Frank Dane.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
~ Irene Peter.

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