Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie… — Christopher Hitchens
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the… — Mao Zedong
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the… — John Cassian
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall… — Ambrose
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you… — Soren Kierkegaard
No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its… — Gregory of Nazianzus
...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing Itself,… — Pope Dionysius
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life. — Jaggi Vasudev
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if… — Swami Vivekananda
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better… — Doc Holliday
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant. — Miyamoto Musashi
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge. — Confucius
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk. — Barack Obama
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,… — Clarence Darrow
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… — Epictetus
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will… — M. F. Husain
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics,… — Jesse Eisenberg
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules… — William Penn
The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he… — Charles Loomis Dana
Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those… — Leonardo da Vinci
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings… — Leonardo da Vinci
One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try… — Scott Adams
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to… — Gautama Buddha
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant… — Charles Darwin

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