Top 100 Ignorant Man Quotes
#1. An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
Lord Chesterfield
#2. An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Horace Mann
#3. Of course I'm ignorant, that remains true at all events and is extremely distressing for me, but it does have the advantage that the ignorant man dares more, so I shall gladly put up with ignorance and its undoubtedly dire consequences for a while, as long as my strength lasts.
Franz Kafka
#4. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#5. the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.
Francis Wheen
#6. The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Cesare Lombroso
#7. An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.
Alaa Al Aswany
#9. The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
George Dana Boardman Pepper
#10. The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge: a great man's world by the limits of his vision.
E. Paul Hovey
#12. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
#13. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
Imam Ali
#15. If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus
#16. Amor does not vincit omnia, you ignorant man... when the woman doesn't amat you back!
Liz Braswell
#17. It may be that the ignorant man, alone,
Has any chance to mate his life with life
That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life
That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.
Wallace Stevens
#18. To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.
Jean Starobinski
#19. Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Booker T. Washington
#20. The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him. The
Paramahansa Yogananda
#21. An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.
Gautama Buddha
#22. No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.
Anthony Trollope
#23. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice
#27. The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
Richard Steele
#29. A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
#32. Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.
Victor Hugo
#33. I have yet to meet an ignorant man whose roots are not embedded in my soul.
Kahlil Gibran
#34. There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
Harper Lee
#35. Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. 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.
Albert J. Nock
#38. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace Mann
#39. Every man is on earth to symbolize something he is ignorant of.
Kem Nunn
#40. The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
J. Vernon McGee
#41. We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods.
Jorge Luis Borges
#42. The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself
Imam Ali
#43. But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
Jane Austen
#44. A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#46. A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
#47. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#48. Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
Vance Havner
#49. The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#50. All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#51. Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!
John D. Rockefeller
#52. 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.
Derek R. Audette
#53. Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant. What place this is, and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments. Nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
For as I am a man, I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.
William Shakespeare
#54. A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
Charles Babbage
#55. This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.
Venerable Bede
#56. T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.
Sue Monk Kidd
#57. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
#58. It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
Anna Julia Cooper
#59. As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
#60. The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#61. The life of a man who is ignorant of his destiny is meaningless
Sunday Adelaja
#62. Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural; but for man it is a defect.
Boethius
#63. That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
#64. A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits.. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
#65. When I was poor, I didn't know how big the world was and what a man's life could be. I was too ignorant to make my dreams big enough.
Ken Coffman
#66. I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.
Joe Namath
#67. History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
Lillian Hellman
#68. Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
Mark Twain
#69. Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
Mary Shelley
#70. A lonely tree in the desert shares the same fate with the wise man amongst the ignorant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
Alfred The Great
#73. And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
#74. Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
Gautama Buddha
#75. good man's example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content,
Helen Macdonald
#76. A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
James Allen
#77. If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
George Santayana
#78. The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
Samuel Johnson
#79. An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
Epictetus
#80. The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
Xenophon
#81. Nothing is more ignorant than choosing man's intelligence over God's.
Beth Moore
#82. Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain.Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.
Ishmael Reed
#84. He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man.
Epictetus
#85. Men are much more unrolling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.
Lord Chesterfield
#86. Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.
Sophie Hannah
#87. When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#88. In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#89. I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
#90. The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
#91. To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
R. Scott Bakker
#92. To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#93. He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
Plato
#94. Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Stendhal
#95. The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
#96. But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
Dan Brown
#97. Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one
Swami Vivekananda
#98. 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.
Shimon Peres
#99. The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.
Louis L'Amour
#100. Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
Leslie Stephen
