Ignorant Quotes
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.
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.
We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.
Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?