Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say… — Robert Green Ingersoll
[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution… — Daniel Dennett
George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do… — David McCullough
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it… — Jonathan Stroud
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence… — Bertrand Russell
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. — Mark Twain
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed… — John Fowles
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to… — Margaret Atwood
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or… — Katherine Paterson
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And… — Rajneesh
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the… — Theodore Dreiser
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling,… — Rene Descartes
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. — Jennifer Chiaverini
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant. — Jane Austen
the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of. — Robin Hobb
Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong,… — Sylvia Plath
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils,… — Anatole France
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness… — Alan Watts
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things. — Terry Pratchett

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