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.

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

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.

Lactantius

But those who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these prophets are to be believed; for they say that those voices are not divine, but human.

Lindsay Anderson

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Alice Sebold

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

Anna Quindlen

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

Ann Aguirre

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

Anne Bradstreet

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

Billy Graham

If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

John Young

We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.

You have ignorant people on these shows misleading the public,

Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Confucius

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

Isabel Allende

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Flip Wilson

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Fidel Castro

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

Freeman Dyson

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Evelyn Waugh

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.