Ignorant Quotes

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. — Mark Twain
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened… — W.C. Fields
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as… — Martin Luther
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all. — Lord Chesterfield
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the… — Sun Tzu
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was… — Mark Twain
Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware… — Rajneesh
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness,… — Rajneesh
Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story. — Max Ehrmann
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves;… — George Bernard Shaw
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting… — Jules Renard
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant… — Stephen Jay Gould
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world… — William Penn
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care… — Lysander Spooner
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... — Lewis Thomas
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any… — Jonathan Swift

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