Ignorant Quotes
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.
There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.
Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.
That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.
A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.