Ignorant Quotes
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
Charles Dickens
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Patrick Henry
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No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
Rufus Choate
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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
Confucius
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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
Stanley Kubrick
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Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.
Ivan Pavlov
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
Euripides
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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
Red Cloud
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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.
Gerda Lerner
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Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
Eliza Leslie
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Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.
Zicheng Hong
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The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.
Walter Wink
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I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.
Gerald Durrell
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Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.
Dolly Parton
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It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
Alexander Acosta
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He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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You know when you are doing a movie like Ted Bundy you try to as much as you can keep it upbeat when you are not working on the scene, so you cannot totally get disgusted and lost in it and also from my point of view I was ignorant to it all what was kind of going on.
Boti Bliss
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
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The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
Alfred the Great
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If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus
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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Ethan Allen
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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
Cesare Lombroso