Ignorant Quotes
1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
— Aristotle
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The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
— J. Vernon McGee
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The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't…
— Maya Angelou
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Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met…
— Pierre Berton
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
— Anna Quindlen
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It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
— C.S. Lewis
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
— Socrates
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Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
— Sophocles
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
— Gautama Buddha
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
— Plato
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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
— Plato
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
— Publilius Syrus
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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
— Publilius Syrus
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,…
— Gautama Buddha
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When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think…
— Paul K. Chappell
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An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.
— Gautama Buddha
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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
— Plato
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
— Plato
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If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good…
— Unknown Author
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I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.
— Unknown Author
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The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
— Gautama Buddha
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God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to…
— Hermann Goring
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It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
— Mother Teresa
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Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the…
— Pat Robertson
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