Ignorant Quotes

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

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

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.