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Ignorance Quotes by Famous Authors
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“The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.”
Ivan Turgenev
Change
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Belief
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Society
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Nihilism
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Ignorance
2.
“Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering.”
Guy Kawasaki
Ignorance
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Mindset
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Confidence
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Simplicity
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Perspective
3.
“The most dangerous people are those who don’t realize how dangerous they are.”
Ankur Warikoo
Danger
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Awareness
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Ignorance
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Impact
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Self-perception
4.
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the ones who are ignorant. They are the ones who are ignorant and BELIEVE they are right!”
Ankur Warikoo
Ignorance
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Belief
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Danger
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Awareness
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Arrogance
5.
“To know what you don’t know is power. To ask and learn what you don’t know is a superpower.”
Ankur Warikoo
Ignorance
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Learning
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Curiosity
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Power
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Growth
6.
“Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.”
V.S. Naipaul
Ignorance
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Society
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America
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Politics
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Danger
7.
“The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.”
V.S. Naipaul
Ignorance
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Isolation
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Awareness
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Perception
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Knowledge
8.
“Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.”
Ramakrishna
Knowledge
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Unity
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Ignorance
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Diversity
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Understanding
9.
“You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.”
Ramakrishna
Stars
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Sun
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God
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Ignorance
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Perception
10.
“The ordinary man says in his ignorance, “My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best.” But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.”
Ramakrishna
Religion
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Ignorance
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Knowledge
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Unity
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Illumination
11.
“Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Love
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Ignorance
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Compassion
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Humanity
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Understanding
12.
“The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear
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Ignorance
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Awareness
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Wisdom
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Freedom
13.
“Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire – to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Fear
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Ignorance
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Understanding
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Peace
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Compassion
14.
“You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.”
Pythagoras
Suffering
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Awareness
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Wisdom
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Ignorance
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Realization
15.
“It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.”
Pythagoras
Silence
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Wisdom
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Argument
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Ignorance
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Peace
16.
“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”
Plutarch
History
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Knowledge
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Ignorance
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Learning
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Maturity
17.
“Being human and investigating the affairs of the gods is an extreme version of being tone-deaf and talking about music, or having never served in the army and talking about warfare: we resemble amateurs trying to use arguments from probability based on opinions and conjecture to unearth the ideas of experts. Given.”
Plutarch
Ignorance
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Knowledge
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Expertise
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Opinion
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Understanding
18.
“I wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks fun.”
Scott Adams
Intelligence
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Ignorance
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Opinion
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Certainty
,
Perspective
19.
“When did ignorance become a point of view?”
Scott Adams
Ignorance
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Knowledge
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Perspective
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Society
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Question
20.
“I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance.”
Leonard Cohen
Ignorance
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Acceptance
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Surrender
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Learning
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Experience
21.
“There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.”
Anton Chekhov
Ignorance
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Action
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Consequence
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Danger
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Wisdom
22.
“Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy.”
Anton Chekhov
Happiness
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Ignorance
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Self-awareness
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Perspective
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Contentment
23.
“When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.”
Anton Chekhov
Ignorance
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Conflict
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Self-awareness
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Misunderstanding
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Psychology
24.
“He did nothing and knew how to do nothing.”
Anton Chekhov
Idleness
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Ignorance
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Failure
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Life
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Emptiness
25.
“No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand. Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.”
Anton Chekhov
Psychology
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Humility
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Ignorance
26.
“Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.”
Chanakya
Knowledge
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Ignorance
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Leadership
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Wisdom
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Guidance
27.
“Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.”
Chanakya
Blindness
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Lust
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Pride
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Greed
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Ignorance
28.
“The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.”
Chanakya
Foolishness
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Age
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Wisdom
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Learning
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Ignorance
29.
“A low-minded person should not be given good advice.”
Chanakya
Wisdom
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Advice
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Low-minded
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Ignorance
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Futility
30.
“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”
Chanakya
Knowledge
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Ignorance
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Wisdom
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Learning
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Awareness
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