Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Nicolaus Copernicus

There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

The ignorant ones do not recognize their Creator.

Paulo Freire

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.

Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Marisha Pessl

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

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.

Pythagoras

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

Pythagoras

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Lewis Thomas

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Sophie Swetchine

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

Rumi

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

Steven Erikson

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Shahrukh Khan

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

Red Cloud

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Kevin Hart

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Richard Baxter

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Tricia Helfer

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

Plotinus

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

Thomas Paine

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Huxley

The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

Robert M. Hutchins

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Richard Ford

Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

Rufus Choate

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Walter Cronkite

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ignorant power is a bane!

Tycho Brahe

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

Stephen Colbert

I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.