“In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I was naive and ignorant. I'll never be like that again. But I can't go back. I've come out. I can't stick… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“You comfort me so much! I am so ignorant. Am I to kiss you now? Is the moment come?” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far… — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless… Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect. — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image