Ignorant Quotes

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

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.