Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Massinger

Pray enter, You are learned Europeans, and we worse Than ignorant Americans

A Brahmin well versed in the scriptures is undoubtedly superior to an ignorant person.

Janeane Garofalo

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

Julian Assange

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Ivan Illich

To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

Frank Herbert

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Margaret Atwood

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Mark Twain

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

Mark Twain

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

Jean-Paul Marat

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Fred Melamed

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Miyamoto Musashi

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

Ralph Nader

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Oscar Wilde

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Lydia M. Child

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Mark Twain

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Mary J. Blige

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

Marshall McLuhan

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

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.

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.

Fanny Burney

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

The ignorant ones do not recognize their Creator.

Edward Bond

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

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.

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.

Epictetus

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Epictetus

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

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.