Ignorant Quotes

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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.

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 .

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.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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

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.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

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.