Ignorant Quotes

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.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

Sometimes I look [ on trolls on Twitter], but even one ignorant comment can make me go, "Oh god."

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Ignorant power is a bane!

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

There's a lot of stuff in the club that's like, it's cool there because you're drinking and all you wanna do is do ignorant sh*t.

The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.