Ignorant Quotes

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.

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

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

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.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.