Ignorant Quotes

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Ignore the ignorant.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.