Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage. — Julian Assange
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! — Katharine Lee Bates
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted -… — Richard Bausch
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer… — Alice Walker
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? — Orson F. Whitney
It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant. — Richard Jefferies
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions,… — James Fenimore Cooper
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some… — William T. Vollmann
I try to be funny and not ignorant. — Kevin Hart
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in… — Todd Rundgren
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it. — Rick Pitino
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of… — Kage Baker
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish,… — James Gray
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to… — Siri Hustvedt
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve. — Roxane Gay
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. — Kenneth Clarke
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. — Sydney Smith
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. — John Simon
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames
The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. — Tommy Armour
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining.… — Patricia Sun
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated. — Suzanne Fields
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and… — Ethan Allen

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