Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

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.

Lindsay Anderson

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

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.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Albert Einstein

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

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

John Young

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

Clarence Darrow

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

You have ignorant people on these shows misleading the public,

Billy Graham

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Confucius

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

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.

Alice Sebold

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

Barry Gibb

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

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.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Chinua Achebe

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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.

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.

Kathleen Hanna

I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

Hal Sparks

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Herman Melville

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Herman Melville

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.