Ignoramuses Quotes

#1. There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

#4. The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Camille Paglia

#5. In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#6. We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Albert Einstein

#8. We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

Berl Katznelson

#9. One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Be what you are and stay as you are and never change.

Michel Russell

#12. Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.

Rupert Spira

#13. The person my heartache would spit out wouldn't be Ellie Watt and she wouldn't be Eden White. I didn't know her name, but I knew she wouldn't possess a heart.
I was fucking scared of her.

Karina Halle

#14. If you want to judge me, I can handle it.

Richard Sherman

#15. I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.

Lance Berkman

#16. Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Oliver Goldsmith

#17. The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#18. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.

Alberto Villoldo

#19. This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they've gone - your husband is gone - and they become your child, and you have to look after them as you would a child.

Judy Parfitt

#20. Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

Lisa Nicole Carson

#21. It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

#22. Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#23. Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt.

Rick Yancey