Ignorant Quotes

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

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.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?