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Ignorant Quotes by Epictetus
- In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate…
- Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed,…
- An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has…
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He…
More Ignorant Quotes
- 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… — Isaac Asimov
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — 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… — 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,… — John Adams
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams