Ignorant Quotes

• Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

  

  Socrates
  • Problem
  • Become
  • Qualified

• 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.

  

  Charles Curtis
  • Hand
  • Prejudice
  • Bias

• When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Powerful
  • Wise
  • Numerous

• It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

  

  Cass Gilbert
  • Speak
  • Admire
  • Subjects

• It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Ignorant
  • Would Be
  • Jewels

• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Ignorant

• It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

  

  George Orwell
  • Influence
  • Ignorant
  • Frightful

• How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Small
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ignorant
  • Domain
  • Knowledgeable

• As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Trees
  • Railways
  • Streamships

• Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Character
  • Ignorant
  • Conceited

• The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • True
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  

  V. R. Krishna Iyer
  • Black
  • Dog
  • Police

• Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in, since I was part of the clique since it's inception.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Fit

• It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Silent
  • Ignorant
  • Dispute

• My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

  

  Gazzy Garcia
  • Goal
  • Ignorant
  • Richest

• Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Racist
  • Hateful

• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

  

  Socrates
  • Change
  • Intelligent
  • Resist

• And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Ignorant
  • Awake
  • Forgetful

• Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Ignorant
  • Vulgar

• If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • Mind
  • Character
  • History

• The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • World
  • Door

• The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Body
  • Ignorant

• I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to be ignorant of popular music. Goldsmith says, "Nobody thinks twice nowadays about listening to everything!" Something that had seemed so uniquely, radically syncretistic in Flynt's day seems much more commonplace now.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Moments
  • Listening
  • Distance

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