Ignorant Quotes
-
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
-
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
-
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.
-
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
-
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.
-
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
-
It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
-
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.
-
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.
-
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
-
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
-
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.
-
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
-
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
-
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.
-
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
-
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.
-
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.
-
To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
-
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the 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.
