Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. — Rob Reiner
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken… — Richard Attenborough
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone… — Christopher Hitchens
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but… — River Phoenix
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid… — Carl Sagan
Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.' — Eva Mendes
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In… — Charles Osgood
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But… — Bill Maher
Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables… — Gary Snyder
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. — Joe Abercrombie
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully… — Susan B. Anthony
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.… — Roger Bacon
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. — Avicenna
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are… — Frederic Bastiat
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. — Thomas Jefferson
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… — Thomas Paine
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our… — Kurt Vonnegut
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. — Aeschylus
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. — Alfred the Great
AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -… — Siegbert Tarrasch
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on… — Richard Baxter

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