Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

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… — Mark Twain
I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make… — Simon Helberg
People are bloody ignorant apes. — Samuel Beckett
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. — Miriam Defensor Santiago
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but… — Brian D. McLaren
It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building. — K. Pattabhi Jois
But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant… — Gordon Gould
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be… — Emile M. Cioran
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed… — William Shakespeare
What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when… — Nafis Sadik
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. — Bodhidharma
The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined… — Derek R. Audette
Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. — Derek R. Audette
I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what… — Julien Temple
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons — Pietro Metastasio
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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… — Mark Twain
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if… — Leonardo da Vinci
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. — Juvenal
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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