Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
Ah! Yet Consider It Again! http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/considerit.html, st. 4 (1851).
“In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. … Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.”
In 'The Languedocian Scorpion'
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French entomologist and author 1823–1915Related quotes
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966-1972)
“I have found that many people use arrogance to try to hide their own ignorance.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 22
“Contempt prior to investigation is what enslaves a mind to Ignorance.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
This or similar statements are more often misattributed to Herbert Spencer, but the source of the phrase "contempt prior to investigation" seems to have been William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity (1794): "The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination."
Misattributed
“That's a horrible plan."
"Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.”
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 34
Referenced
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
A Treasury of Inspirational Thoughts (2004) by S.P. Sharma, p. 41.
Disputed
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
"The Death of Me", p. 150
Awareness (1992)
Context: Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. The only tragedy there is in the world is unwakefulness and unawareness. From them comes fear, and from fear comes comes everything else, but death is not a tragedy at all. Dying is wonderful; it's only horrible to people who have never understood life. It's only when you're afraid of life that you fear death. It's only dead people who fear death.
