Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

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.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

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

Albert Einstein

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

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.

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.

Barry Gibb

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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.

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.

Lindsay Anderson

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

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,

Billy Graham

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

William Shakespeare

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

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

John Berger

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Edward Bond

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

Jorge Luis Borges

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

Napoleon Bonaparte

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Maimonides

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.