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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

— Samuel Butler

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

— Baruch Spinoza

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

— Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

— Plato

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

— George Chapman

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

— Aldous Huxley

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

— Gayle Lynds

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

— Jean Toomer

✗Opposing Perspectives

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

— Wayne Dyer

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

— Patanjali