Ignorant Quotes

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must… — W. Somerset Maugham
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay,… — Mitch Albom
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole. — Richard Ford
If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing… — Frances Hardinge
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment… — Kurt Vonnegut
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant. — Gerald Durrell
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.… — Julian Barnes
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when… — Samuel Adams
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a… — Jane Austen
Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness… — Maya Angelou
at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were… — Janet Fitch
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant… — Charles Dickens
We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that… — David James Duncan
If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either… — Jonah Goldberg
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the… — Amy Tan
He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. — Isabel Allende
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught… — Evelyn Waugh
Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like… — Christopher Moore
So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent.… — Bertrand Russell

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