Top 100 Quotes About Ignorant
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
Ian Lamont
#5. Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
John Berger
#6. Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
Stanley Kubrick
#7. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Ronald Reagan
#9. There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#10. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
Dalai Lama XIV
#11. Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#12. Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.
Chuck Wendig
#13. One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.
Kenneth Clark
#14. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim Ibn Hizam
#15. Every man is on earth to symbolize something he is ignorant of.
Kem Nunn
#16. It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.
Benjamin Franklin
#18. Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?
Francine Rivers
#20. You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.
Thomas Huxley
#21. The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
David Mamet
#22. I saw with regret, (and all scientific men have shared this feeling) that whilst the number of accurate instruments was daily increasing, we were still ignorant
Alexander Von Humboldt
#23. A mass of ignorant, culturally degraded citizens easily becomes an immense drag on the system. They become easy prey to demagogues and applaud every attempt to undermine the foundations of that "natural liberty" which they have enjoyed in the first place.
Arthur Herman
#24. Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.
Venita VanCaspel
#25. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
Tupac Shakur
#26. The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
Albert Camus
#29. The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
J. Vernon McGee
#30. That's another pitfall of reductionism: Until scientists have the means to isolate and measure things, they insist those things don't and can't exist, and anyone who says otherwise is ignorant an superstitious.
T. Colin Campbell
#31. It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
Jane Austen
#32. I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.
Frank Zappa
#33. Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
#34. Only the ignorant would believe that things exist in the way that they appear.
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
#35. People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
Rick Bragg
#36. The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment ... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
Thurgood Marshall
#37. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.
Leonhard Euler
#38. A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H.L. Mencken
#39. 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
#40. I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.
Robert Dabney
#41. 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
#42. If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
David Rockefeller
#43. Too many assume that the reason people do not come to God is because they are ignorant; it is more generally true that the reason people do not come to God is because of their behavior.
Anonymous
#44. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe
#45. Eragon doubted that he would ever like an Urgal, but the iron certitude of his prejudice only a few minutes before now seemed ignorant, and he could not retain it in good conscience.
Christopher Paolini
#46. If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#47. I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.
Bob Uecker
#48. The Dark is a word for the ignorant. The people hare are Gifted. Different powers, different abilities. But Gifted. Like you.
Anthony Ryan
#49. Can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself n is beset with weakness.
Anonymous
#50. The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.
Terry Goodkind
#51. There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#52. Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Chanakya
#53. She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agonies.
Harriet Jacobs
#54. Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
Ben Jonson
#55. 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
#56. The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan
#57. Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.
Alexander Dumas
#58. The difference between an ignorant fool shoveling manure in a bullpen, and a fool with a PhD, is that the fool with the PhD can shovel more of it, faster.
Dimitris Mita
#59. American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#60. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
#61. Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity
#62. Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available.
Cassandra Duffy
#64. The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself
Imam Ali
#65. You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
Roald Dahl
#66. The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.
Thomas Huxley
#67. My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised.... They have huge power, and many of them are extremely reckless.
Conrad Black
#68. On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.
Kate Winslet
#69. You could read a hundred books about the attitudes and beliefs of the past, but the impact of witnessing this casual, ignorant cruelty firsthand was like having a bucket of ice upended over your head.
Alexandra Bracken
#70. It's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many different sides to everybodys personality and there's just different colours to a personality.
Kelly Clarkson
#71. The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.
Bill Hamon
#72. It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
Siri Hustvedt
#73. Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.
Martin Gardner
#75. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
#76. Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.
Gary Snyder
#77. Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.
Susan Estrich
#79. I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.
Megan Fox
#80. The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Jonathan Swift
#81. Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#82. Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
Rudyard Kipling
#83. He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#84. Wherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.
Hosea Ballou
#86. Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another.
Peter Bray
#87. To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant - inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
Daniel Dennett
#88. To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
Kano Jigoro
#89. We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
#90. Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.
E M Cioran
#91. Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Pablo Picasso
#92. Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people.
Jonathan Heatt
#93. The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.
Victor Hugo
#94. It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
Adora Svitak
#95. I look up to the modern entrepreneurs, because the one's from the old age, many are racist, even if no one knows about that part of their lives, but I am not so ignorant that I will not learn from their work to better my life.
James Jean-Pierre
#96. You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
Peter Oliver
#97. She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.
George Saunders
#98. Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#99. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
Criss Jami
#100. 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
