Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted,… — Jonah Goldberg
The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the… — Mahatma Gandhi
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the… — Moliere
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare
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… — Mark Twain
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. — Allan Bloom
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… — Virginia Woolf
No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand. — Jinxx
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive. — Aldous Huxley
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning… — Charles Caleb Colton
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it… — Lucy Larcom
I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. — Bob Uecker
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are… — Noam Chomsky
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns… — Horace Walpole
Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding. — Wendell Berry
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated. — Ramakrishna
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or… — J. William Fulbright
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom… — Eddie Redmayne
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can. — Hal Sparks
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of… — Thomas Sowell
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make… — Jennifer Weiner

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