Ignorant Quotes
1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors
-
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
— Horace Mann
-
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant,…
— Oscar Wilde
-
What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
-
Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be…
— Robert M. Hutchins
-
You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the…
— Michael Buckley
-
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the…
— John Knowles
-
When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I…
— Christopher Paolini
-
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane…
— Richard Dawkins
-
But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight,…
— Diana Wynne Jones
-
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a…
— Saint Augustine
-
No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains…
— Saint Augustine
-
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
-
Shigure:"A summer home like this by the lake, you half expect JASON to show up!" Yuki: "There he goes again..." Kyo: (Thinking to himself) Jieison...Jaysun?…
— Natsuki Takaya
-
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else…
— Donna Tartt
-
You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
— Roald Dahl
-
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
— C.S. Friedman
-
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the…
— Virginia Woolf
-
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.…
— Robert A. Heinlein
-
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent…
— Jhonen Vasquez
-
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.…
— Bill Watterson
-
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of…
— Gilles Deleuze
-
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
— Oscar Wilde
-
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
— Confucius
Who Wrote These Ignorant Quotes
740 authors contributed a total of 1,053 Ignorant Quotes, led by these top contributors: