Ignorant Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

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.

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.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.