Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

William Shakespeare

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Barry Gibb

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

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Japanese Proverb

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

William Allingham

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Benjamin Franklin

He makes a Foe who makes a jest.

Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

Turkish Proverb

Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.

Joseph Conrad

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

John Dryden

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

Warren Buffett

Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.