Ignorant Mind Quotes

#1. Ignorant mind is a tightly closed door! To open it, you must knock the door repeatedly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.

Jane Austen

#4. 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

#5. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.

D.L. Moody

#6. They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. To my mind, They're mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant oafs with diplomas that are turned loose on the country every June.

J.D. Salinger

#7. Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

Thom Gunn

#8. Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

Maimonides

#9. The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own.

Dorothea Lange

#10. The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#11. There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

#12. There is no substitute for an understanding mind. Satan can defeat the ignorant believer, but he cannot overcome the Christian who knows his Bible and understands the purposes of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#13. It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna

#14. An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Create the bounty of madness in your heart (of His love)

Not by intelligence alone will you reach to the truth."

(For if the mind is not enlightened by revelation,

It is better to remain an ignorant one.)

Jalaluddin Rumi

#16. It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

Ajahn Sumedho

#18. If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Vera Nazarian

#19. The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.

M.J. Croan

#21. Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination ...

William Hazlitt

#22. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#23. 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.

Jerry Seinfeld

#24. A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

Allen Johnson

#25. Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Lydia M. Child

#26. The mind that reaches out to other people, to the environment, to provide what it seems to lack itself, is a mind that is ignorant of its own resources for peace and happiness.

B. Alan Wallace

#27. It is said that the ignorant are obstructed by ignorance, while the intellectuals are obstructed by intellectual knowledge. One way of getting past these obstacles and approaching inherent knowledge is to let go of whatever comes to mind.

Muso Kokushi

#28. Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#29. 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

#30. One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Horace Walpole

#31. At the time, it seemed everything was falling apart by no reason. My mind was dramatic in its ignorant stage. I knew nothing of what love was, nor the presence of a greater being within myself. Everything seemed overwhelming, and little did I know, I would conquer the voids of this falsity.

Brandi Gomez

#32. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#33. So much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. 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.

Felix Frankfurter

#35. Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant.

Steven Erikson

#36. 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

#37. What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
Have a nice day.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#38. Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform - should you change your mind.

John Irving

#39. Arjuna, fair or unfair, the results of any action depend on five things: the body, the mind, the instruments, the method and divine grace (luck? fate?). Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for any outcome. - Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 13 to 16 (paraphrased).

Devdutt Pattanaik

#40. Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

Gautama Buddha

#41. Informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#42. Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#43. Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past; worried about future; ignorant about the present moment.

Saurabh Sharma

#44. Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Albert Einstein

#45. The body knows things about which the mind is ignorant

Jacques Lecoq

#46. No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

Voltaire

#47. He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

Jonas Karlsson

#48. I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Bernard Beckett