Ignorance Quotes And Sayings

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“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
– Mark Twain

“I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.”
– Mark Twain

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation.”
– Matt Furey

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
– Michelangelo

“It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“The seed of knowledge withers in the harsh wasteland of ignorance, yet grows strong in the fertile fields of imagination.”
– Nantala A. Lavarenlavadora

“Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.”
– Nicolas Manetta

“Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.”
– Norman Macdonald

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”
– Norman Podhoretz

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society.  If we’re looking for the source 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

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
– Pablo Picasso

“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”
– Paul Gauguin

“Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
– Publilius Syrus

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn.”
– Raw Bradbury

“It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.”
– Richard Dawkins

“Ignorance and Innocence are twins in the same cradle. Ignorance is never reared, and her death is either the death of Innocence also, or her immortality.”
– Richard Garnett

“Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.”
– Robert Benchley

“The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child’s mind.”
– Robert Brault

“Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.”
– Robert Hugh Benson

“The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.”
– Samuel Butler

“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
– Saul Bellow

“Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.”
– Seth Llyod

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
– Socrates

“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
– Stephen Leacock

“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.”
– T.S. Eliot

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
– Theodore Geisel

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