Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Jeff Bishop

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.

Source Unknown

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

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.

Barry Gibb

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

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Pablo Picasso

Basically the French are all peasants.

G. M. Trevelyan

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Louis Pasteur

Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman

Wallace Stevens

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

Tom Callahan

Only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed.

Walter Hagen

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.