Ignorant Quotes

1053 Ignorant quotes by 740 unique authors

Better a pink bottom than a black soul. — Lester Roloff
The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to… — Jerry Falwell
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility,… — Phyllis Schlafly
The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has… — Henry M. Morris
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came… — Dave Eggers
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if… — David Hume
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,… — Bertrand Russell
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of… — John Thorn
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant. — Wes Fesler
This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation,… — Viktor Schauberger
Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that… — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen… — John Stuart Mill
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away… — Soren Kierkegaard
Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill… — Assata Shakur
I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that… — Karl Popper
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the… — Baruch Spinoza
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that… — Benjamin Disraeli
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border… — Charles P. Kindleberger
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic… — Noam Chomsky
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence… — Chaim Weizmann
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid… — Neal Stephenson
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum… — Henry Hazlitt

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