Ignorant Quotes · Page 51

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

— Fisher Ames

If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish,…

— Polly Berrien Berends

I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb…

— David Grubbs

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in…

— William Hazlitt

The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such…

— Benjamin H. Freedman

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I…

— Freeman Dyson

I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In…

— Bernard Hopkins

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding…

— John D. Rockefeller

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

— Confucius

When I'm in an interview with someone who is not intelligent, but flat-out ignorant, idiotic and stupid, or just an ass, it…

— Karrine Steffans

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent…

— Derek R. Audette

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has…

— Juan Cole

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be…

— Charles Curtis

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

— Orson F. Whitney

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have…

— John Podhoretz

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred…

— Samuel Johnson

Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills…

— Assata Shakur

“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And…

— George Orwell

Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

But for Republicans and conservatives, it's both willfully ignorant and negligent not to acknowledge that there is in fact a scientific consensus…

— S.E. Cupp

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known…

— Horace Walpole

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever…

— Lewis Thomas