Ignorant Quotes
1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors
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Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that…
— Piero Scaruffi
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Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.
— Chico Xavier
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Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption…
— Pope Gregory VII
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Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to…
— Suzy Kassem
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
— Truman Capote
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Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one
— Swami Vivekananda
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Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
— Albert Martin
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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the…
— Edward Coke
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I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from-how often…
— Matthew Lesko
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Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's…
— Jane Birkin
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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
— Goldwin Smith
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand'…
— Hannah Arendt
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held…
— Albert J. Nock
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You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what…
— Aldous Huxley
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I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your…
— Barry Hughart
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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.
— George Orwell
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Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is…
— Westbrook Pegler
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Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never…
— Ronald Reagan
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Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone…
— Roger Bacon
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Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and…
— Richard Mitchell
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Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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