Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people. — Tinie Tempah
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. — Lewis Thomas
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do… — G. M. Trevelyan
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. — Harriet Tubman
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. — Mark Twain
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. — Voltaire
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. — Voltaire
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We… — Marlon Wayans
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. — John Archibald Wheeler
Violence is a tool of the ignorant. — Flip Wilson
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… — Matthew Arnold
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try… — Thomas Huxley
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost… — Bill Bryson
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't… — Bill Bryson
Most fools think they are only ignorant. — Benjamin Franklin
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. — Khalil Gibran
If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just… — J D Salinger
She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief. — George Saunders
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous.… — Pablo Picasso
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that… — Mark Twain
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really… — Terry Pratchett
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears. — William Shakespeare
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. — Jane Smiley
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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