Ignorant Quotes
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
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The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
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There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
