Intellect...Intelligence...IGNORANCE
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0502
“The obstacle that most often stands in the way of progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”
— Duncan B. Sutherland, Jr.
IGNORANCE, Change, Knowledge, Adversity, Bores
0503
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
IGNORANCE, Knowledge, Perception, Humility
0504 C
“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” — Thomas Gray
IGNORANCE, Wisdom
0505
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” — Socrates
IGNORANCE, Sin
0506
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.” — William Osler
IGNORANCE, Judgment, Hate, Originality
0507
“He that knows least commonly presumes most.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
IGNORANCE, Judgment, Hate
0508 H
“The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.”
— Arnold H. Glasgow
IGNORANCE, Self-Confidence, Knowledge
0509
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.” — Eric Hoffer
IGNORANCE, Hate
0510
“The fact you don’t know
Is enough of a curse;
Not to want to know
Is a fate that’s much worse.” — Rolf B. White
IGNORANCE, Knowledge, Motivation
0511 H
“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” — Don Herold
IGNORANCE, Wisdom
0512 H
“The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.”
— Alberto Moravia
IGNORANCE, Knowledge, Arts
0513 H
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
IGNORANCE, Wisdom
0514 H
“Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.”
— Gene Brown
IGNORANCE, Planning
0515 A
“Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.” — John Ray
IGNORANCE, Happiness
0516
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
IGNORANCE, Fear, Sciences
0517 H
“Knowledge - The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.” — Ambrose Bierce
IGNORANCE, Sciences, Arts
IGNORANCE Cross-References
Excellence—73 • Motivation—104 •
Perseverance—152 • Planning—162 • Self-Confidence—208 •
Pessimism—278 • Fear—325-326 • Doubt—355-356 •
Knowledge—533, 543, 545, 547-548, 550, 563 • Wisdom—582, 584 •
Judgment—675 • Genius—703, 708, 715 • Hate—848, 860-861 •
Dishonesty—869 • Sciences—1085-1086 • Reward—1195 •
Politics—1234 • Family & Friends—1375 • Communication—1399-1400 •
Bores—1418-1420, 1422-1423 • Age—1435 • Experience—1468
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