Ignorant Quote by Janis Ian Download Open image “Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.” — Janis Ian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorant People Satisfied Self
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Half of all happy people aren't really happy they are just too ignorant to feel anything else. — Jade' Wick Copy Share Image
Most people in this country, while they might not be happy about things, also are woefully ignorant about many things. Sometimes people can learn,… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
“the only happy people are the ignorant. Nobody with a functioning brain is happy. They know better” — Laurel Dewey Copy Share Image
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People don't just want to feel satisfied. They actually want to act. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
