Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent… — William Butler Yeats
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, -… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. — John Muir
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When… — Dalai Lama
...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but… — E. Nesbit
Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This… — Neil Postman
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of… — Harper Lee
Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the… — David McCullough
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the… — Isaac Asimov
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly… — Adam Smith
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. — Stephen King
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. — Leo Tolstoy
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a… — Murray Rothbard
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I… — Mark Twain
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the… — Victor Hugo
It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under… — George Orwell
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of… — William Shakespeare
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'. — Anne Hathaway
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than… — Samuel Johnson
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in… — Margaret Atwood
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer

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