Ignorant Quotes

Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!"

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

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.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.