Ignorant Quotes
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Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
William Shakespeare -
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
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
J. William Fulbright -
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Cass Gilbert -
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
Heraclitus -
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.
Marquis de Condorcet -
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.
Pythagoras -
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 -
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
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
Kristen Stewart -
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates -
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Pythagoras -
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.
Miyamoto Musashi -
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
Rene Descartes -
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
Barack Obama
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
Kano Jigoro -
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes -
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
Anthony Clifford Grayling -
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
Vine Deloria, Jr.