Top 34 Quotes About Ignoramus
#1. A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes
#2. I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.
William Shatner
#3. A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
Northrop Frye
#4. Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg
#5. The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.
Rush Limbaugh
#6. Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."
Tryon Edwards
#7. IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Ambrose Bierce
#8. You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus.
Plato
#9. A teacher is held to a higher standard than a student, and a student is held to a higher standard than an ignoramus.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death? - no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Oriana Fallaci
#12. Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.
John F. Kennedy
#13. I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.
Swami Vivekananda
#14. Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?
Rand Paul
#15. Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.
Maria Weston Chapman
#16. It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.
Stephan Attia
#17. The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
Bryant McGill
#18. Only an unscientific ignoramus would hold to the thought that nothing created everything.
Ray Comfort
#19. I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.
Kevin Moffett
#21. A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
Heinrich Heine
#22. I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.
Sarah Silverman
#23. Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!
Marjorie Grene
#24. My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus. I can't tell a string-bean from a soybean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean
Ogden Nash
#25. Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
Maya Angelou
#26. Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.
Maimonides
#27. Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
Mark Twain
#28. I cared nothing; my point of view in that instance, as in all others like it, was, that if the paper chose to send an outsider and an ignoramus to criticise works of art - especially the works of a new and tentative and experimental school - then, on the head of the paper let the just doom fall.
Arthur Machen
#29. Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.
Kin Hubbard
#30. few nights ago I was the topic of discussion, and we all decided I was an ignoramus.
Anne Frank
#32. It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.
Geoffrey Willans
#33. We will never have the elite smart people on our side.
Rick Santorum
#34. Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.
Sophie Hannah