Ignorant Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ignorant power is a bane!

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

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

Anyone who would laugh at a recital is probably some sort of lunatic anyway. I mean, only a sick, twisted mind could be that rude and ignorant.

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.