Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg
Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a… — Rajneesh
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant. — Charley Reese
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such… — William Shakespeare
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. — Pearl S. Buck
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of… — Seneca the Younger
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless… — George Santayana
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends. — Ben Jonson
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. — Mark Twain
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened… — W.C. Fields
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as… — Martin Luther
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
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
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the… — Sun Tzu
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson

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