Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth;… — Vance Havner
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt… — AnnaLynne McCord
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence.… — Greg Mortenson
Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant. — Ivan Pavlov
There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of… — Symeon the New Theologian
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind… — Symeon the New Theologian
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure,… — Edward Robert Harrison
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian… — Edmund Burke
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. — Johannes Tauler
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to… — Herbert Marcuse
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. — Rick Bragg
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and… — Emily Greene Balch
I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and… — Juan Cole
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off… — Red Cloud
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. — Barry Gibb
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. — John Jay Chapman
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize… — Henry Morton Stanley
I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at… — Tricia Helfer
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person. — Chad Hugo
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. — Janis Ian
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the… — Plato

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