Ignorant Quotes

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.'

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.

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?

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.

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

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.