Ignorance Quotes And Sayings

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“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz.  It’s the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.  You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Trust that little voice in your head that says “Wouldn’t it be interesting if…”  And then do it.”
– Duane Michals

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“Be not ashamed to own thy ignorance of some things.”
– Edward Councel

“Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul.”
– Edward Counsel

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Some stories are true that never happened.”
– Elie Weisel

“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
– Euripides

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” 
– Francis Bacon

“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”
– Frank Barron

“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

“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words.”
– Gamaliel Bradford

“The darkest night is ignorance.”
– Gautama Buddha

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.”
– George Eliot

“We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.”
– George Eliot

“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. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day’s dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.”
– George Eliot

“It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.”
– George Eliot

“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
– George Kneller

“Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
– George Smith Patton

“I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.”
– Gilda Radner

“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
– Gustave Flaubert

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”
– Henri Matisse

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.”
– Henry Ford

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