Top Ignorant Quotes Collection

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Image of Anne Bradstreet
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
- Anne Bradstreet
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Vera Nazarian
If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
- Vera Nazarian
Collection: Ignorant
Image of John Podhoretz
All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.
- John Podhoretz
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Pythagoras
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
- Pythagoras
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Vine Deloria Jr.
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
- Vine Deloria Jr.
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Sister Souljah
a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!
- Sister Souljah
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Miyamoto Musashi
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.
- Miyamoto Musashi
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Donald Woods Winnicott
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.
- Donald Woods Winnicott
Collection: Ignorant
Image of David Walker
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.
- David Walker
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Brian Herbert
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.
- Brian Herbert
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Geoffrey Sampson
Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.
- Geoffrey Sampson
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Lydia M. Child
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
- Lydia M. Child
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Eliza Acton
It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.
- Eliza Acton
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Tycho Brahe
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
- Tycho Brahe
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Rufus Choate
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
- Rufus Choate
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Walter Wink
The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.
- Walter Wink
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Kano Jigoro
To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
- Kano Jigoro
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Red Cloud
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
- Red Cloud
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Walter Cronkite
We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Nicolaus Copernicus
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Tom DeLay
Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Peter Tait
We are quite ignorant of the condition of energy in bodies generally. We know how much gas goes in, and how much comes out, and know whether at entrance and exit it is in the form of heat or of work. That is all.
- Peter Tait
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Jean-Paul Marat
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.
- Jean-Paul Marat
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Freeman Dyson
Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.
- Freeman Dyson
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Isocrates
Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.
- Isocrates
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Nipsey Hussle
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.
- Nipsey Hussle
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Hiroo Onoda
Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.
- Hiroo Onoda
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Jacques Lecoq
The body knows things about which the mind is ignorant
- Jacques Lecoq
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Albert Martin
Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
- Albert Martin
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Robert M. Hutchins
Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Patty Andrews
I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!
- Patty Andrews
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Shahrukh Khan
It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.
- Shahrukh Khan
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Elfriede Jelinek
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.
- Elfriede Jelinek
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Dorothea Lange
The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.
- Dorothea Lange
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Lewis H. Lapham
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Maimonides
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
- Maimonides
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Zicheng Hong
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.
- Zicheng Hong
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Rumi
You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.
- Rumi
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Simone Elkeles
And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.
- Simone Elkeles
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Simone Elkeles
If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.
- Simone Elkeles
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Oscar Wilde
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Marisha Pessl
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
- Marisha Pessl
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Seneca the Younger
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Ann Aguirre
A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.
- Ann Aguirre
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Joyce Carol Oates
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Richard Baxter
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
- Richard Baxter
Collection: Ignorant
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Ignorant