Top 100 Quotes About Ignorant
#1. I'd be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet, roar roar, caw caw, more like baa baa.
Bruce Crown
#2. We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
Maimonides
#3. It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.
Ravi Zacharias
#4. I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Kahlil Gibran
#5. Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!
Elizabeth Bishop
#6. But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#9. You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.
Ray Comfort
#10. Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise - too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
Saint Augustine
#12. Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
William Shakespeare
#13. There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.
Victoria Woodhull
#14. While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
Horace Greeley
#15. For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
H.L. Mencken
#16. We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#17. I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.
Elizabeth Wein
#18. I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
Anthony Bourdain
#19. On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.
Rene Descartes
#20. In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack
Victor Hugo
#21. We find in them an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. Still, we ought not to burn them.
Voltaire
#22. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.
Rory Miller
#23. There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Charles Dickens
#24. A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
L. Ron Hubbard
#26. If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr
#27. Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money.
If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide;
If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Richard De Bury
#28. God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.
James Targett
#29. It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
#30. A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#31. One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
Daniel C. Dennett
#32. Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
Banana Yoshimoto
#33. I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.
Tinie Tempah
#34. The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
[The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.]
George Herbert
#35. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
Jean De La Fontaine
#36. Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
#37. There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.
Laura Wiess
#38. While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
Charles Osgood
#39. People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
Kage Baker
#40. Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.
Lady Gaga
#41. To paraphrase the great humorist, Will Rogers . . . "We're all ignorant, but only on different subjects".
Wilson Casey
#42. Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.
Arthur Koestler
#43. 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
#44. Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
John Ruskin
#45. I have yet to meet an ignorant man whose roots are not embedded in my soul.
Kahlil Gibran
#46. We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.
Emmanuel Aghado
#47. I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
Sarah Silverman
#48. We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
Jules Renard
#49. There's no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there's only ignorance. You think you are holding on to something pure, but you aren't. You're just ignorant. You are handicapped by everything you don't yet know.
Eleanor Catton
#50. But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.
Gordon Gould
#51. Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
Red Cloud
#53. It may be said that hysteria is as ignorant of the science of the structure of the nervous system as we ourselves before we have learnt it.
Sigmund Freud
#54. The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!
Sapper
#56. For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that one's life is barren as the dusty yards of one's town
Eugenia Collier
#57. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.
Fanny Kemble
#58. I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
Truman Capote
#59. This was the moment where she would decide her fate. She could choose to become the powerful Arella she saw or she could remain ignorant and clumsy. She understood now that the choice was entirely hers.
Sarah Elizabeth Petersen
#60. The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.
John Adams
#61. Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
Queen Latifah
#63. The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
William Blake
#64. There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.
R. Scott Bakker
#65. One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
Mark Twain
#66. The prayer of a trained theurgist is like the majestic flow of a large river; but an ignorant and weak person can produce only something similar to an irregular trickle from a half-clogged tap.
Mouni Sadhu
#67. They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.
Ryan Miller
#68. To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an additional burden almost beyond endurance.
Frances J. Woodward
#69. The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
Mary J. Blige
#70. I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Anne Bronte
#71. 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
#72. Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
Fidel Castro
#73. Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
P. J. O'Rourke
#74. It is far better to know God's truth than to be ignorant of it.
Billy Graham
#75. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#76. Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.
Stephen Colbert
#78. I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.
Sir John Davies
#79. Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn
#81. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#83. But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#84. She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.
Lora Leigh
#87. Some people are racist. Some people are jealous. Some people are just fucking ignorant, she says, her eyes coming up to meet mine as her fingers let go of my shirt. Don't let someone else dictate how your heart feels about someone
Ginger Scott
#88. A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
#89. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#90. 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.
Diana Wynne Jones
#91. The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.
Charles Evans Hughes
#92. Most choose to pretend they're ignorant of the facts because the system works. The idea of changing it scares them more than giving it their tacit approval.
Joelle Charbonneau
#93. Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..
Edwin A. Abbott
#94. 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
William Carlos Williams
#95. At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis
#96. In the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.
Jim Butcher
#97. Two thousand years of monotheistic brainwashing have caused most Westerners to see polytheism as ignorant and childish idolatry. This is an unjust stereotype.
Yuval Noah Harari
#98. They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Norm MacDonald
#99. The faults of women, children and servants,' he said, 'and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of husbands, fathers and masters, and of the strong, the rich and the learned.
Victor Hugo
#100. In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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