Ignorant Quotes
1053 quotes by 740 authors
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
— Robert Browning
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
— Al Capp
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were…
— Giacomo Casanova
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
— Richard Cecil
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
— Frank A. Clark
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Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
— Tupac Shakur
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
— Lucretius
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
— Unknown Author
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
— Thomas Paine
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Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
— Timothy Zahn
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant…
— Sun Tzu
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Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they…
— Zhuge Liang
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
— Stephen King
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The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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