Ignorant Quotes

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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than… — Calvin Coolidge
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant. — Richard Dawkins
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who… — Solomon Northup
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. — Sun Tzu
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind. — M.F.K. Fisher
It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but… — Mao Zedong
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts… — Donald Woods Winnicott
A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person… — Rajneesh
What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare… — Cesar Milstein
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and… — John of Damascus
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on… — Joseph Glanvill
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never… — John Jakes
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep. — Heraclitus
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch. — Mark Twain
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain
...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins! — Mark Twain
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced. — Mark Twain
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God. — Mark Twain

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