Ignorant Quotes

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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. — Isaac Asimov
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what… — Saint Augustine
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
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… — Abu Bakr
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination… — John Adams
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I… — John Adams
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. — Henry Ward Beecher
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of… — Annie Besant
The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant. — Mary J. Blige
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? — Allan Bloom
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the… — Allan Bloom
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical… — Allan Bloom
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid… — John Abbott
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to… — Jorge Luis Borges
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government… — James Bovard
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,… — Anne Bronte

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