Ignorant Quotes
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.
But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.
He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.
Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.
Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.
Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!
You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.
But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.
Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.