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Ignorant Quotes by Mark Twain
- It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
- The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
- ...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
- We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
- ...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
- Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will…
- You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat…
- It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes...
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
- The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely…
- History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up…
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that…
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
- Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
- Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
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
- 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… — Annie Besant
- The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant. — Mary J. Blige