Ignorant Quotes

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.

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.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

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.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

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.

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.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.