Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past… — Joe Rogan
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers. — H. L. Mencken
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the… — Criss Jami
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later,… — Criss Jami
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our… — Catherine Crowe
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits… — Charles de Lint
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for… — Marcus Aurelius
Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once… — P.J. O'Rourke
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard… — William Hazlitt
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it… — Oliver Goldsmith
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All… — Fred Allen
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant… — Hartley Coleridge
There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point… — Felix Frankfurter
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. — Anatole France
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. — Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. — Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. — Benjamin Franklin
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. — Galileo Galilei
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. — Khalil Gibran
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. — Newt Gingrich
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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