Ignorant Man Quotes

28 quotes by 21 authors

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. — William Gibbs McAdoo
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all. — Lord Chesterfield
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. — Saadi
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
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
An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding. — Gautama Buddha
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom. — Gautama Buddha
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
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to… — Emma Goldman
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. — William McKinley
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand — Cesare Lombroso
A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
The ignorant man never enjoys. — Swami Vivekananda
It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day.… — Jan Potocki
Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if… — Swami Vivekananda
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held… — Albert J. Nock
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears… — Booker T. Washington
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for… — Marcus Aurelius
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
There is one way in this country in which all men are created equalâ€”there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of… — Harper Lee

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